Politician Quotes · Page 30

There is no doubt that we need to manage migration better.Migrants are always getting the blame for politicians.

— Sadiq Khan

The test of political institutions is the condition of the country whose future they regulate.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Politicians will pander to special-interest groups eager to gain at the public expense.

— Donald J. Boudreaux

I have no belief in the system. So Sonny is perfectly at home (in Washington D.C.). Politicians are one step down below…

— Cher

I don't like my politicians entertaining me and I don't like my entertainers politicianing me.

— Craig Ferguson

Today, a politician does not just need public support to win elections; he needs it to govern.

— Dick Morris

Office tends to confer a dreadful plausibility on even the most negligible of those who hold it.

— Mark Lawson

Look, I like my music, and I don't have a conventional background for a politician, but I'm pretty conventional in many senses.

— Chuka Umunna

You ask a politician a question, like, why they ran in an election, and you'll hear, I assume, something about wanting to…

— Amitava Kumar

If I was to interrupt this article every few sentences, asking you whether or not I was making a good impression on…

— Christopher Hitchens

One of the biggest roles of science fiction is to prepare people to accept the future without pain and to encourage a…

— Arthur C. Clarke

It is the middle of December now, and we are about to travel to Switzerland - where we plan to ski a…

— Hugh Laurie

I believe that all literatures can have political uses and misuses. Sometimes politics can enhance, sometimes it can get in the way…

— Gayl Jones

Even a wizard would have a great deal of difficulty repealing the economic law that higher minimum wages reduce employment. Since politicians…

— Gary Becker

Media populism means appealing to people directly through media. A politician who can master the media can shape political affairs outside of…

— Umberto Eco

There are good reasons why everybody should heed politicians' advise not to believe the media. One of the best is that the…

— Russell Baker

The politicians of New York as not so fastidious as some gentlemen are, as to disclosing the principles on which they act.…

— William L. Marcy

Before the nineteen-seventies, most Republicans in Washington accepted the institutions of the welfare state, and most Democrats agreed with the logic of…

— George Packer

Have you ever noticed that the only metaphor we have in our public discourse for solving problems is to declare war on…

— George Carlin

...the first murmurings from the liberal part of the U.S.A. that we were somehow in the wrong, brutal killers, bullying other countries;…

— Marcus Luttrell

No politician can praise unemployment or inflation, and there is no way of combining high employment with stable prices that does not…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

don’t believe the war is simply the work of politicians and capitalists. Oh no, the common man is every bit as guilty;…

— Anne Frank

The career of politics grants a feeling of power. The knowledge of influencing men, of participating in power over them, and above…

— Max Weber

Old politicians, like old actors, revive in the limelight. The vacancy which afflicts them in private momentarily lifts when, oncemore, they feel…

— Malcolm Muggeridge

Politicians never accuse you of 'greed' for wanting other people's money - only for wanting to keep your own money.

— Joseph Sobran

Confronted with economic problems, politicians always blame the private sector first ... [even] blaming the problem on the solution.

— Richard L. Gordon

Public opinion is the pennant on a nation's mast which shows the politician and the editor how to trim the sails.

— Austin O'Malley

The only politician ever to have entered parliament with honourable intentions, was Guy Fawkes.

— Terry Deary

I can remember when a good politician had to be 75 percent ability and 25 percent actor, but I can well see…

— Harry S. Truman

Bill Bradley is a serious politician and if Al Gore stumbles seriously, then Bradley is there to take advantage of that.

— Tom Mann

A politician without money for advertising is out of luck. They are not taken seriously.

— Robert Kane Pappas

When a politician uses the word 'folks,' we should brace ourselves for the deceit, or worse, that is coming.

— Noam Chomsky

Politicians are like the bones of a horse's foreshoulder-not a straight one in it.

— Wendell Phillips

The political is replacing the metaphysical as the characteristic mode of grasping reality.

— Harvey Cox

It is in struggle and service with our brothers and sisters, individually and collectively, that we find the meaning of life.

— Jesse Jackson

The civil rights movement didn't begin in Montgomery and it didn't end in the 1960s. It continues on to this very minute.

— Julian Bond

As a film actor, I connected to the people on the good and positive things. But, as a politician I feel the…

— Jaya Prada

We all know that Prime Ministers are wedded to the truth, but like other wedded couples they sometimes live apart.

— Hector Hugh Munro

There will be more coming afterwards if we don't re-empower politicians to get organized and work together.

— Jonathan Rauch

Politicians are terrified of losing touch with folks back home but content to be clueless about governments failure to fix real problems.

— Jim Cooper