Politician Quotes · Page 52

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

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

— William Lane Craig

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've become accustomed to supporting politicians who are more conservative than I am. This is not entirely a surprise.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

All politicians promise that which they cannot deliver. I just wish they did so less gleefully.

— Dov Davidoff

Having lived in Florida for as long as you did as well, Jeb Bush has never really been that great of a…

— Joy-Ann Reid

Tony Blair is a very able politician; he's perhaps one of the best of his generation. He made a major contribution in…

— Kofi Annan

Public values are not only under attack in the United States and elsewhere but appear to have become irrelevant just as those…

— Henry Giroux

I like talking about certain things, I like being vocal. But I couldn't see myself being full-fledged politician. I don't really see…

— Declan McKenna

The increasing remoteness of consanguinity is everyday diminishing the force of the family compact between France and Spain. And politicians have ever…

— Alexander Hamilton

It's not that I'm not interested in politics, but rather, I think that the people who become politicians in Japan are not…

— Takafumi Horie

The court follows elite opinion, not public opinion. And Democratic leaders in Congress and Republican leaders in Congress follow elite opinion as…

— Ted Cruz

I've always wondered why European politicians as a group seemed brighter than American politicians as a group. Maybe it's becausemany American politicians…

— Ishmael Reed

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

— Joseph Brodsky

Even though the press at times made me completely crazy as they followed me around the hall, and asked tough questions over…

— Barbara Boxer

We do not hear the term compassionate applied to business executives or entrepreneurs, certainly not when they are engaged in their normal…

— Nathaniel Branden

There's a reason education sucks, and it's the same reason it will never ever ever be fixed. It's never going to get…

— George Carlin

The most important thing for me is that I've used my talents as a writer to enable the Ogoni people to confront…

— Ken Saro-Wiwa

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

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

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

Politically, Swift was one of those people who are driven into a sort of perverse Toryism by the follies of the progressive…

— George Orwell

Funny that all of Nixon's crimes - anonymous campaign cash, wiretapping, undeclared wars - are all legal now. Discuss.

— Bill Maher

Our elected politicians do what they judge is the right thing to do. And if we disagree then I'll show them the…

— Michael Marmot

I'm not a politician. I don't know how to solve the problems of the world. But as an artist, I have one…

— Marjane Satrapi

A politician before he can become a statesman has to remain in office long enough.

— Manmohan Singh

Any time some politician tells you it's not about the money, it's about the money.

— Ted Cruz

No one since the Garden of Eden - which the serpent forsook in order to run for higher office - has imputed…

— William F. Buckley, Jr

Whenever a man reaches the top of the political ladder, his enemies unite to pull him down. His friends become critical and…

— Henry Adams

The problem of abolishing want is not a problem in division, as the politicians so often aver; it is a problem of…

— Henry Wriston

I'm no politician but I do feel that a lot of damage was done because of misguided principals and America is still…

— Jack Bruce

I've never been disappointed by politicians. I've never invested that much in them in the first place.

— Paul Merton

Politicians cannot create jobs or wealth. Such is axiomatic to straight thinkers.

— Greg Perry

Anti-European politicians tell more myths and fantasies about Europe than you can find in Harry Potter or The Da Vinci Code.

— Denis MacShane

There is no visible sign that the current politicians in the US are willing to see the need for change.

— David Korten

[Donald] Trump is still Trump, and that means he says things that politicians just don't say.

— Don Gonyea

In America you can go on the air and kid the politicians, and the politicians can go on the air and kid…

— Groucho Marx