A politician is someone who promises a bridge even when there's no water — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
The only place you see a free market is in the speeches of politicians. — Dwayne Andreas Copy Share Image
A statesman is any politician it's considered safe to name a school after. — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
The idea that money is corrupting innocent politicians would be laughable if it did not lead to such dangerous legislation... — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Voting is not a right. It is a method used to determine which politician was most able to brainwash you. — Dennis E Adonis Copy Share Image
There's the disingenuous duplicitousness, but you can apply that to every politician, really. — David Cross Copy Share Image
Frankly, I'm fed up with politicians in Washington lecturing the rest of us about family values. Our families have values. But our… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
The [Liberal] federal government's trouble is that they have a wishbone where they should have a backbone. — Tommy Douglas Copy Share Image
We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician. — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
I am not a parliamentarian. I am a politician. Some MPs leave and are itching to get back. I don't feel that.… — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
I think, in these days, especially in the States, you have to be a politician or an assassin or something, to really… — Jim Morrison Copy Share Image
Cindy Sheehan is a clown. There is no real antiwar movement. No serious politician, with anything to do with anything, would show… — Karl Rove Copy Share Image
I am a patriot. I would think there are no politicians who are not patriots. Since I am a politician, I often… — Shinzo Abe Copy Share Image
Representative government has broken down. Our politicians represent not the people who vote for them but the commercial interests who finance their… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
It is kind of tedious after a while, to parse politicians doing the same thing over and over again. The facts change… — Frank Rich Copy Share Image
I mean if you have ever found a politician who says, 'No, no, I would do everything exactly as I did,' then… — John Major Copy Share Image
A real leader uses every issue, no matter how serious and sensitive, to ensure that at the end of the debate we… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
There is a whole school of Canadian academics, media personalities, and politicians whose definition of a Canadian is a North American who… — Preston Manning Copy Share Image
An intellectual may be interested in ideas and policies for their own sake, but a politician's interest is exclusively in the question… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
We still have politicians who strive for a different type of country: Kaczynski as well as Orbán in Hungary. They want a… — Adam Michnik Copy Share Image
A democracy flirts with the danger of becoming a slave in direct ratio to the numbers of its citizens who work, but… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Running for office, or suggesting you might, is no longer about being a politician but being an independent opinion or sensibility entrepreneur.… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
This national argument is usually interpreted as a battle between imperialists led by Roosevelt and Lodge and anti-imperialists led by William Jennings… — William Appleman Williams Copy Share Image
What would you consider a good job?" Answered as follows: "A good job is one in which I don't have to work,… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Men are strange about politics. I have been around the world twice and I know politicians from many cultures. They are all… — Maryon Pearson Copy Share Image
If the government were obliged to come to the people for money instead of vice-versa, the people would keep government under control… — E.C. Riegel Copy Share Image
As women politicians, we talk about the most difficult themes of state security, foreign relations and development models, then ask, 'How do… — Michelle Bachelet Copy Share Image