Politician Quotes · Page 42

There are some politicians who, if their constituents were cannibals, would promise them missionaries in every pot.

— H. L. Mencken

I'm an actor I'm not a politician. I always kick myself when I talk too much about family, or personal things.

— Christian Bale

“Arthur Jelliby was a very nice young man, which was perhaps the reason why he had never made much of a politician.”

— Stefan Bachmann

I think it's weird that people think someone who's not a politician could be the mayor of Chicago.

— Eric Zorn

I am an Orangeman first and a politician and member of this parliament [Stormont] afterwards.

— William Lane Craig

I think Hillary Clinton's a very clever politician but she would be too easy to stereotype the way John Kerry was.

— Maureen Dowd

Beware of all politicians everywhere. They excelled at recess when they were in school but have excelled at little since.

— Jim Rogers

You know there's no crooked politicians. There's never a lie because there is never any truth.

— Lenny Bruce

They [African-American community] have been abused and used in order to get votes by Democrat politicians, because that's what it is. They've…

— Donald Trump

I didn't see many female politicians on TV. I didn't see women in history textbooks, so I did geography, and art and…

— Emma Watson

I can assure you that my first and foremost interest is my country. This is not a personal matter. We are not…

— Fidel Castro

Debasing your currency sometimes works in the short term, it has never worked in the long term and does not even usually…

— Jim Rogers

Many businesses with unpopular products or inefficient production find it much easier to curry the favor of a few influential politicians or…

— Charles Koch

The capitalist system, in spite of all obstacles put in its way by governments and politicians, has raised the standard of living…

— Ludwig von Mises

I would argue that there's been a backlash this year [2016]. They [the Kochs] pushed the [Republican] party too far right. The…

— Jane Mayer

I don't believe any real artists have ever been non-political. They may have been insensitive to this particular plight or insensitive to…

— Toni Morrison

Our accent will be upon youth: we need new ideas, new methods, new approaches. We will call upon young students of political…

— Malcolm X

Often vastly more important, international agreements are not routinely published in draft form or publicly debated, and civil society organizations and ordinary…

— Thomas Pogge

Dont teach my boy poetry, an English mother recently wrote the Provost of Harrow. Dont teach my boy poetry; he is going…

— John F. Kennedy

A politician must often talk and act before he has thought and read. He may be very ill informed respecting a question:…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

For nearly two centuries, scholars and politicians have debated the future of capitalism. Its critics, most prominent among them Karl Marx, have…

— Raghuram Rajan

Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution, the time will come when medicine will organize into an undercover dictatorship to restrict…

— Benjamin Rush

We're not seeing, you know, dozens of reporters being beaten up. And there may be more attention to it than there has…

— Tom Rosenstiel

I am 60, and I am as much an internationalist as when I was younger, when I was a Marxist-Leninist. Internationalism is…

— Bernard-Henri Levy

I'm not a politician. I think that uniquely qualifies me to become president of the U.S.

— Roseanne Barr

Rock n' roll seems to have changed society much more than any politician, I think it really has.

— Roger Daltrey

Im sick and tired of politicians beating up on the IRS. We have the best and fairest tax-collection system in the world.

— Charles Rangel

“The only thing more dangerous than a politician who thinks about re-election, is a politician who doesn't think about re-election.”

— James Carville

[On Senator Everett Dirksen:] His great enemy was boredom and he won every engagement.

— Mary McGrory

I saw a startling sight today, a politician with his hands in his own pockets.

— Mark Twain

Politicians aren't any more wicked than other citizens but the situation in which they are placed warps their judgment.

— Helen Gahagan Douglas

Diplomats make it their business to conceal the facts, and politicians violently denounce the politicians of other countries.

— Margaret Sanger

What could be more important to the pursuit of happiness than the right to choose your spouse without asking a Washington politician…

— Lisa Murkowski

When politicians presume to do God's work, they do not become divine but diabolical.

— Pope Benedict XVI

Politicians live in little worlds of their own and imagine they are the universe.

— Michael Foot

I will make such a wonderful India that all Americans will stand in line to get a visa for India

— Narendra Modi

...Politics is not about facts. It is about what politicians can get people to believe.

— Thomas Sowell

Life is getting better, but that won't stop a war if politicians and business people decide it's to their advantage to have…

— Octavia Butler

Isn't that what our job to do is right there in media to discuss what politicians are doing so they stop doing…

— Eric Bolling

A house divided cannot stand for long. That goes for politicians and the rest of us.

— Willie D