Politician Quotes · Page 55

...in the hands of politicians grand designs achieve nothing but new forms of the old misery...

— John le Carre

The political process consists entirely of politicians talking out of their butts.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Need' now means wanting someone else's money. 'Greed' means wanting to keep your own. 'Compassion' is when a politician arranges the transfer.

— Joseph Sobran

The only people I know getting in high places by running their mouth are politicians.

— Bo Jackson

Nobody wants to listen to a politician, but they'll listen to their friends and family.

— Jasmine Crockett

My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician. And to tell the…

— Harry S Truman

It is not through any combinations of politicians that the outcome of an electoral campaign is decided.

— Dominique de Villepin

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

At the time when talk of war, intimidation, and aggression is exchanged between politicians, the name of their country, Iran, is spoken…

— Asghar Farhadi

I am a very proud daughter. Obviously to be able to see this transpiring, to watch him achieve so much as a…

— Ivanka Trump

I get it, I'm not central casting of what someone imagines a New Jersey Democrat or politician looking like. That's what I…

— Andy Kim

The Philippines is a country in which a man of morals can't be president, in which a politician who hasn't been linked…

— Raymond Bonner

If politicians were serious about day care for children, instead of just sloganizing about it, nothing they could do would improve the…

— Thomas Sowell

If a citizen who's committed many crimes, instead of going to prison would say something against me or another politician, or against…

— Giulio Andreotti

“A politician has positions. A statesman has convictions, and pledges his life, fortune, and sacred honor to defend and advance them. Unfortunately,…

— Steve Deace

My seriousness as a politician will be seen from what I speak from a political stage and say in press conferences. If…

— Gurpreet Ghuggi

Born in the same land, we ought to live as brothers, doing to each other all the good we can, and not…

— Thomas Jefferson

There are myriad government programs out there to help small businesses. Few people use them effectively. The maze of information makes it…

— Sher Valenzuela

I think it's a slightly crazy time actually, it's very difficult to satirise because each of politicians is in their own way…

— Armando Iannucci

Shrewd and crafty politicians, when they wish to bring about an unpopular measure, must not go straight forward to work, if they…

— Charles Caleb Colton

...the first murmurings from the liberal part of the U.S.A. that we were somehow in the wrong, brutal killers, bullying other countries;…

— Marcus Luttrell

No politician can praise unemployment or inflation, and there is no way of combining high employment with stable prices that does not…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Before the nineteen-seventies, most Republicans in Washington accepted the institutions of the welfare state, and most Democrats agreed with the logic of…

— George Packer

Have you ever noticed that the only metaphor we have in our public discourse for solving problems is to declare war on…

— George Carlin

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

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

— Volodymyr Zelensky

I cannot throw my core values into a dustbin as some do for the sake of power and position. What kind of…

— Y. S. Jaganmohan Reddy

We're going to bring back God and the Bible and drive the gods of secular humanism right out of the public schools…

— Pat Buchanan

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

— Will Rogers

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

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

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

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

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 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