Politician Quotes · Page 38

You don't help a depressed economy by giving control of its resources to politicians.

— Robert P. Murphy

[On Austen Chamberlain:] He is more loyal to his friends than to his convictions.

— Margot Asquith

These guys from the nation's capital - now they do a lot of thinking. Referring to boxers from D.C., not politicians.

— George Foreman

You can't get something for nothing. Everybody remembers this except politicians.

— P. J. O'Rourke

I am not a consensus politician... This is something that is really very un-Dutch.

— Geert Wilders

Girls can do anything. We do do anything and we expect to be treated as equals.

— Helen Clark

I was raised with pretty thick skin. And I think people are hungry for politicians who aren't afraid to say what they…

— Justin Trudeau

When I hear a politician speak biographically, I never know what's part of the campaign biography narrative that's been carefully crafted.

— Terry Gross

But we must not forget the effort undertaken by the ruling elite in Russia to manipulate Western politicians, businessmen as well as…

— Garry Kasparov

No professional politician is ever actually in favor of public economy. It is his implacable enemy, and he knows it. All professional…

— H. L. Mencken

My sense of American politics is that most of our politicians are for sale, whether they are out and out crooked, or…

— Kam Williams

You listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music. The thing about…

— Jerry Garcia

It really doesn't take brains to be a politician as much as it takes stomach. Both would be nice, but in America…

— Rita Mae Brown

From the earliest days, the Rothschilds appreciated the importance of proximity to politicians, the men who determined not only the extent of…

— Niall Ferguson

You may be educated abroad, you may be a great scientist, politician, but you always have a sneaking fear that if you…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

If I'm a cruel satirist at least I'm not a hyprocrite: I never judge what other people do. Neither a politician nor…

— Federico Fellini

The widespread abuse of prisoners is a virtually foolproof indication that politicians are trying to impose a system--whether political, religious or economic--that…

— Naomi Klein

Some president wishes to be re-elected, and thereupon speaks about the Bible as "the corner-stone of American Liberty." This sentence is a…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

If the oncoming mutation to interstellar immortality is screwed up by the politicians, it will be because those of us who see…

— Robert Anton Wilson

How can I, that girl standing there, My attention fix On Roman or on Russian Or on Spanish politics? Yet here's a…

— William Butler Yeats

The truth is our immigration system is worse than anybody ever realized. But the facts aren't known because the media won't report…

— Donald Trump

Many politicians in the West cling to the notion of a partnership with Russia. They want to include [Vladimir] Putin, make compromises…

— Garry Kasparov

When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man's moral constitution and make a temporary fool of him besides,…

— Mark Twain

It seemed like after the 80s and 90s there came a sort of weird time in politics, where something like Spitting Image…

— Armando Iannucci

It is very unusual for a country to ask guys who are not politicians to come and run the country.

— Mario Monti

It is a powerful signal when a politician's home state does not back him or her in a national contest.

— Scott Bessent

I want my questions answered by an alert and experienced politician, prepared to be grilled and quoted -- not my hand held…

— William Safire

I've been dealing with politicians all my life. They are all talk, no action.

— Donald Trump

Nearly every politician plagiarizes their speeches, because nearly every politician has a speech writer do the work for them.

— Ana Kasparian

I am not a full-time politician but a 'sanyasi' who took the path of politics to serve the masses.

— Yogi Adityanath

“Of course he was a politician. He had a lot of experience in saying nothing in a hundred words or more.”

— Kaje Harper

“A brick could be used as a sex toy. Well, I say sex toy, but the politician strapped to the bed would…

— Jarod Kintz

I had no intention to cover my tracks since I am not a politician and I do not represent anybody.

— Tariq Ramadan

Now is the time to act or get stuck with a bland, boring, career politician who will lose to Barack Obama.

— Rick Santorum

It's no use trying to talk philosophy to our politicians. And I'm not a moral or political philosopher. I'm not interested in…

— Marjorie Grene

I'm not one of those people who grew up thinking I want to be a politician. I've seen the ups and the…

— Francis X. Suarez

Politicians never live up to all the hopes that we invest in them but I think he [Barack Obama] has made America…

— Michael Fullilove

Abstinence-only education - the best STD (Sexually Transmitted Disease) and pregnancy delivery system that politicians have ever devised.

— Rachel Maddow

That's the trouble with a politician's life-somebody is always interrupting it with an election.

— Will Rogers

I am not a politician. I am just a simple person who has come to break down this system.

— Volodymyr Zelensky