Politician Quotes · Page 40

Nixon is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump for a speech on conservation.

— Adlai Stevenson

When people tell me nothing has changed, I say come walk in my shoes and I will show you change.

— John Lewis

We need to remind politicians they don't work for the big banks - they work for us.

— Elizabeth Warren

Distracting a politician from governing is like distracting a bear from eating your baby.

— P. J. O'Rourke

[Question: Do you feel that scientists correct themselves as often as they should?] More often than politicians, but not as often as…

— Stephen Hawking

Diplomacy should always be our first option. Most politicians only talk, not fight. I’ve fought; talking is far better than fighting.

— Seth Moulton

Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

I have more fun hanging out with my friends who are musicians and rock stars. You know politicians by and large are…

— Jann Wenner

I'm of the opinion that Angela Merkel is a responsible politician, a politician who has a sense of responsibility for Europe and…

— Alexis Tsipras

As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between the Republicans and the Democrats is the Republicans are Socialists and the Democrats…

— Cleveland Amory

When I think of the person that I thought was Bill Clinton, I think he had genuine remorse. When I think of…

— Monica Lewinsky

The question of questions for the politicians should ever be-What type of social structure am I tending to produce? But this is…

— Herbert Spencer

There is a growing feeling that perhaps Texas is really another country, a place where the skies, the disasters, the diamonds, the…

— Pete Hamill

In all of my encounters with voters, I have repeatedly been confronted with two points of critique. First: You politicians are all…

— Martin Schulz

I think any politician, regardless of their religious conviction, has to be a megalomaniac - they have to be! Anyone who works…

— George Newbern

I have moved on from being a British parliamentarian, I have moved on from being a New Labour politician, I have moved…

— Peter Mandelson

I was getting mad at the system or the politicians or the government, and then I realized someone should talk about this…

— Shane Smith

Some French politicians have said that the European Union should drop sanctions against Russia so everybody can join together in this fight…

— Corey Flintoff

Some Israeli politicians have proposed the transfer of Palestinians out of what is currently called Israel, either into the occupied territories, into…

— Judith Butler

We want to be famous as a writer, as a poet, as a painter, as a politician, as a singer, or what…

— Harry Crews

Organisms are starting to move in response to climate change all over the place. Bees are disappearing and we don't have many…

— Paul R. Ehrlich

One day you and I will have to have a little talk about this business called love. I still don't understand what…

— Oriana Fallaci

I just think the more the media uses their time-honored blueprint techniques to destroy Republican politicians... It hasn't worked on Trump yet,…

— Rush Limbaugh

Human beings act in a great variety of irrational ways, but all of them seem to be capable, if given a fair…

— Aldous Huxley

Even a good politician, someone who is very ambitious, chooses not to see trouble.

— Peter Sarsgaard

Coffee which makes the politician wise, and see through all things with his half-shut eyes.

— Alexander Pope

Just like a politician's son or daughter joins politics, it happens in our industry, too.

— Vatsal Sheth

Politicians make promises and they don't do what they said they would do: the reason why so many politicians in Washington are…

— Ted Cruz

The real truth is, I just want to keep the voice of dissent alive in all of our elections. I don't really…

— Roseanne Barr

The oldest, wisest politician grows not more human so, but is merely a gray wharf rat at last.

— Henry David Thoreau

The most meaningless term in the English language is 'I take full responsibility.' When a politician utters those words it means absolutely…

— Bernard Goldberg

The IPCC summary for policymakers is used to scare politicians and goad the public into action. The UN is all about politics.

— Marc Morano

Those politicians, professors and union bosses who curse big business are fighting for a lower standard of living.

— Ludwig von Mises

“I've never met a politician who didn't deserve to be tossed into a pit full of Kallin," Beranabus grunts.”

— Darren Shan

I grew up in Ireland, so I do not have a lot of respect for most politicians.

— Jasmine Guinness

If you interviewed 1,000 politicians and asked about whether the media's too soft or too hard, about 999 would say too hard.

— Bob Woodward

Optimists and pessimists die the exact same death, but they live very different lives!

— Shimon Peres

Good politicians need not be intellectuals, but they should have intellectual lives.

— Gary Gutting

I do not look like the normal politician. I don't even look like a normal person.

— John Fetterman

The worst thing for a politician is to try and cling to power by every possible means, and focus only on that.

— Vladimir Putin