Politician Quotes · Page 37

In Louisiana, we don't bet on football games, we bet on whether a politician is going to be indicted or not.

— Mark Duffy

I was one of those people who was always rather frightened of women politicians.

— William Whitelaw, 1st Viscount Whitelaw

A consensus politician is someone who does something that he doesn't believe is right because it keeps people quiet when he does…

— John Major

The politician's prayer is: May my words be ever soft and low, for I may have to eat them.

— Norman Lamont

Politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don't.

— George Carlin

All the media and the politicians ever talk about is things that separate us, things that make us different from one another

— George Carlin

The prospects of green economic opportunity is going to be determined to a great extent by politicians arriving at some sort of…

— Van Jones

[I support] term limits for career politicians and the death penalty for career politicians.

— Bill Frist

What we have done over the last 40 or 50 years is systematically attacked and weakened the parties, the political machines, the…

— Jonathan Rauch

Self-reliance can turn a salesman into a merchant; a politician into a statesman; an attorney into a jurist; an unknown youth into…

— Newell Dwight Hillis

It was fascinating what a total interest he [John F. Kennedy] had in his tradecraft of being a politician. I didn't realize…

— Chris Matthews

If one meets a powerful person--Adolf Hitler, Joe Stalin or Bill Gates--ask them five questions: "What power have you got? Where did…

— Tony Benn

I believe Mexico should dedicate 100% of its oil revenues to developing human capital and technological development. None of us politicians should…

— Vicente Fox

I've had great pleasure meeting the likes of Newt Gingrich and having a chat with the fellow on a staircase. I found…

— John Lydon

So far as one can generalize, the most graciouis, cultivated, and innovative people in this country are French Canadians. Certainly they have…

— Mordecai Richler

People who are disenfranchised politically and people who are poor often don't vote. They often don't elect politicians, so the politicians who…

— Joyce Carol Oates

By failing to read or listen to poets, society dooms itself to inferior modes of articulation, those of the politician, the salesman,…

— Joseph Brodsky

If the US government spends 40 percent of the nation's income, as it does through either borrowing or taxes, that income is…

— Milton Friedman

I always defended my father, as a child, and I think I'm still defending him - his policies at least. Oh, he…

— Indira Gandhi

Empathically accurate perceivers are those who are consistently good at 'reading' other people's thoughts and feelings. All else being equal, they are…

— William Ickes

Politicians detest self-sufficient citizens. Politicians need to be needed. When we get socialized medicine, you will be completely dependent upon politicians for…

— Neal Boortz

I'm a medical doctor by training. I'm a physician, not a politician. And I'm in this as a mother on fire. You…

— Jill Stein

Abraham Lincoln did have intellectual instincts, a tremendous curiosity on a broad range of subjects, and a near-photographic memory for what he…

— Allen C. Guelzo

The world is full of people who have lost faith: politicians who have lost faith in politics, social workers who have lost…

— P. D. James

Unless we take action on climate change, future generations will be roasted, toasted, fried and grilled.

— Christine Lagarde

A politician thinks about the next elections - the statesman thinks about the next generations.

— James Freeman

When your back is against the wall, there is only one thing to do, and that is turn around and fight.

— John Major

I accept that people are going to call me awful things every day, and I will always defend their right to do…

— Barack Obama

Finally, it occurs to me that the biggest problem with our elections is that however you vote, you wind up electing a…

— Burt Prelutsky

All of the promises of politicians, generals, madmen, and crusaders that war can create peace have yet to be borne out.

— Barbara Kingsolver

Be honest. Be honest with yourself, be honest with, you know, your fellow politicians. This is a rare quality of politicians.

— Ma Ying-jeou

Carry always your earplugs with you in case of emergency, like meeting with a politician!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Unfortunately politicians are not very sound people or they wouldn't be politicians.

— Jim Rogers

People don't believe that any politician is any different from any other one.

— Justin Trudeau

My function in life is not to be a politician in Parliament: it is to get something done.

— Bernadette Devlin

Democracy cannot consist solely of elections that are nearly always fictitious and managed by rich landowners and professional politicians.

— Che Guevara

Politicians, ugly buildings, and whores all get respectable if they last long enough.

— Robert Towne

Politicians are just a bunch of local bandits, sent by their local voters to raid the public treasury.

— Will Rogers

The other feature is a gymnasium named after another dead politician who was gifted with fast and extremely sure hands.

— Jimmy Breslin

Modern candidates seem to have to live with political matters all the time. In my father's time, a politician's home was still…

— Rose Kennedy