Politician Quotes · Page 33

I hear from people all the time and it infuriates me that 'President Obama's a brilliant politician.' No he absolutely is not.

— Dan Bongino

Politicians who are willing to spend too much are the ones who get reelected.

— John Templeton

If there was a university degree for greed, you cunts would all get first-class honours.

— Paul Keating

Get power but don't admit to it. Do it by stealth. There's a whole trend of Rhodes scholars who will be politicians…

— Mel Gibson

The difference between a politician and a snail is that the snail leaves its slime behind. Whoever named it necking was a…

— Groucho Marx

Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.

— Doug Larson

I can't believe I'm saying I'm a politician, but I guess that's what I am now.

— Donald Trump

I have so much respect for policy makers and diplomats, but I could never be a politician because of the way they…

— Azita Ghanizada

While I was the mayor of Bogotá, I received occasional death threats. Therefore, I had to use a bullet-proof vest. I made…

— Antanas Mockus

So to Hillary Clinton, Liz Cheney, Christine Quinn, Susana Martinez, Meg Whitman, Sheryl Sandberg, Carly Fiorina and every other woman out there…

— Nicolle Wallace

There's an old joke that politics is Hollywood for ugly people. An awful lot of the press coverage about Washington reads like…

— Ted Cruz

I'm really not a politician: I don't have a political background, though I've been an activist fighting for my community for years.…

— Paula Jean Swearengin

When words come out of politician's mouth that are linguistically incorrect, people see it reflecting their intelligence. Sarah Palin was called out…

— Ben Zimmer

We will finally complete the biometric entry-exit visa tracking system which we need desperately. For years Congress has required biometric entry-exit visa…

— Donald Trump

Literacy is much more than an educational priority - it is the ultimate investment in the future and the first step towards…

— Irina Bokova

For good or evil, a line has been passed in our political history; and something that we have known all our lives…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

What is true, just, and beautiful is not determined by popular vote. The masses everywhere are ignorant, short-sighted, motivated by envy, and…

— Hans-Hermann Hoppe

The fact is that in England so many of our politicians are career politicians - they've always been politicians since they left…

— Jeremy Irons

The real targets of terrorism are the rest of us: the billions of us who are not killed but are terrorized because…

— Bruce Schneier

The world can no longer be left to mere diplomats, politicians, and business leaders. They have done the best they could, no…

— Dallas Willard

Trump is the candidate giving voice to untold millions of fed-up Americans witnessing a purposeful destruction of our economy and the equal…

— Sarah Palin

“He is not a politician. He’s not even somebody who weighs his words. But he is, in the end, a conformist. A…

— M.R. Carey

In 302, the Roman emperor Diocletian commanded "there should be cheapness," declaring, "Unprincipled greed appears wherever our armies ... march. ... Our…

— Walter E. Williams

I'm not comparing myself with Donald Trump or anybody else - but the people are fed up with the politicians ignoring the…

— Geert Wilders

You need to pray. Donald Trump is who he is - and that's one thing that politicians are not. It's all "game…

— Louis Farrakhan

It is hard to write about politicians, see them at such close range, and still think of any of them as heroes.

— Anonymous

I'm not a politician or a political expert, but I believe that there are many ways to look at peace.

— Liza Donnelly

Politicians are like God. No one believes in them, they haven't done anything for ages, and they give jobs to their immediate…

— Andy Zaltzman

If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.

— H. L. Mencken

I am not in politics. 'President Mutombo?' No, no, no. There has never been a politician in my family, and I am…

— Dikembe Mutombo

But then, he thought, most politicians are small and shabby, the sort of people who have been bullied at school. That's why…

— Anthony Horowitz

You said in your book that at the end of the day, every politician is human. What about during the day?

— Stephen Colbert

Giving a politician access to your wallet is like giving a dog access to your refrigerator.

— Tim Barber

I have grown used to the fact that public repentance is the most unacceptable option for the modern politician.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

A valuable qualification of a modern politician seems to be a capacity for concealing or explaining away the truth.

— Dorothy Nevill

It is weird. A lot of people try to ask me political questions. I'm not a politician.

— Barkhad Abdi

What politicians want to create is irreversible change because when you leave office someone changes it back again.

— Anonymous

It's so cold here in Washington, D.C., that politicians have their hands in their own pockets.

— Bob Hope

The long experiment with professional politicians and professional government is over, and it failed.

— Newt Gingrich

Why is it that when political ammunition runs low, inevitably the rusty artillery of abuse is always wheeled into action?

— Adlai Stevenson I