Politician Quotes · Page 49

Graffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people; politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers,

— Banksy

I wonder if politicians know less about the land, now that they campaign by air.

— Andre Dubus

[The politicians] become nothingness and they don't do the job that they got elected to do. And it happens time and time…

— Donald Trump

Nixon is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree and then mount the stump to make a speech…

— Adlai Stevenson

If you are a businessman or a politician in Iran, you can get a visa as quickly as you ask for it.

— Abbas Kiarostami

I think it's very hard for a woman to be treated as a person and not just as a woman who tries…

— Baran Odar

The politician in my country seeks votes, affection and respect, in that order. With few notable exceptions, they are simply men who…

— Edward R Murrow

The arts can do more to sustain the peace than all the wars, the armaments, and the threats and warnings of politicians.

— Arthur Miller

The American mood, perhaps even the American character, has changed. There are few manifestations any longer of the old American self-assurance which…

— Archibald MacLeish

It's been interesting to see how similar audiences in the East and West are, actually, and how it makes you realize that…

— Asghar Farhadi

The old adage about giving a man a fish versus teaching him to fish has been updated by a reader: Give a…

— Thomas Sowell

The question is, why are politicians so eager to be president? What is it about the job that makes it worth revealing,…

— Dave Barry

Every form of anti-Semitism, every form of xenophobia plays on the fear of the unknown, and unfortunately there are all too many…

— Michael Haneke

I would not want to be a politician... Let me tell you this: If I was campaigning, and I go against my…

— Chuck Norris

I always said that what I do is street knowledge, you let the street know what the politicians of today are doing,…

— Ice Cube

The global warming scare has provided a field day for politicians and others who wish to control our lives. After all, only…

— Walter E. Williams

The Taliban should keep it in mind that one of us has to die one day. And if I die early, it…

— Malala Yousafzai

This morning, prompted by increasing concerns about terrorism, oil prices reached a record high as the cost of a barrel of crude…

— Jon Stewart

The Supreme Court nominations [example]. I mean, the fact that Mitch McConnell, the leader of the Republicans, was able to just stop…

— Barack Obama

The career of politics grants a feeling of power. The knowledge of influencing men, of participating in power over them, and above…

— Max Weber

Old politicians, like old actors, revive in the limelight. The vacancy which afflicts them in private momentarily lifts when, oncemore, they feel…

— Malcolm Muggeridge

don’t believe the war is simply the work of politicians and capitalists. Oh no, the common man is every bit as guilty;…

— Anne Frank

That is the problem with this rich and anguished generation. Somewhere a long time ago they fell in love with the idea…

— Hunter S. Thompson

These self-anointed intellectuals are people who think that those who believe in God and Jesus Christ, those who 'cling to their guns…

— Burt Prelutsky

I don't need politicians doing a 24-hour prayer with Oral Roberts to get our country back on track.

— Lewis Black

Big Money politicians do not have a new form of entitlement. They do not own our votes.

— Jill Stein

“I heard my friend’s car wouldn’t start, so I mailed him a parking lot. I should be a politician.”

— Jarod Kintz

I don't pay much mind to politricks. Never met a politician who wouldn't try to convince you that salt was sugar.

— Nalo Hopkinson

A politician is a man who will double cross that bridge when he comes to it.

— Oscar Levant

Wherever you turn, there is always something wrong with the politicians. They have everything they need to save the world, and they…

— Nana Mouskouri

For politicians truth and falsehood are unimportant. So I never could become a politician - not even a church politician.

— Martin Niemoller

I remember a time when it was ok to make fun of politicians and powerful people. Now, it's not ok anymore. We've…

— Elif Safak

We know Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin as politicians, but they felt that science was something everyone should have a knowledge of.

— Rush D. Holt, Jr

I think that if we don't get these politicians to come together we face the most predictable economic crisis in history.

— Erskine Bowles

Every politician, in order to be a politician, has to be adept at the art of one and one thing only, and…

— David Draiman

So why are we having to fight in 2012 against politicians who want to end access to birth control? It's like we…

— Cecile Richards

Politicians tend to live "in character" and many a public figure has come to imitate the journalism that describes him.

— Walter Lippmann

Barack Obama's a politician, I'm a pastor. We speak to two different audiences.

— Jeremiah Wright

Few politicians are good at taking the high ground and throwing themselves off it.

— Peter Mandelson

The presidents against Congress, the Senate is against the House, people are against politicians, and I'm against cats in the house.

— Hank Williams, Jr