Politician Quotes · Page 60

Most politicians are either generalists or specialists. It's very rare that a politician is both.

— Margrethe Vestager

“There is not one politician in Burundi who would not murder another for the sake of one hour of political power.”

— UN Special Appointment to Burundi Ahmed Ould-Abdallah 95

The actor in me borrows from the politician and the politician in me borrows from the actor.

— Shatrughan Sinha

Politicians are the lowest form of life on earth. Liberal Democrats are the lowest form of politicians.

— George S. Patton

The way I approach stardom and the show, I'm like a politician. I'm an elected late-night official to do your work.

— Arsenio Hall

I'm no politician. I'm an historian who has learned through a lifetime of studying that nothing in the world beats universal education.

— Stephen Ambrose

When politicians deny anything fiercely, there is a good chance that it will happen.

— Semir Zeki

“Show me a man that gets rich by being a politician, and I'll show you a crook.”

— Harry Truman

Sadly, far too many politicians in Washington lack the courage to do something to fix our problems. They are worried about the…

— Matt Salmon

There is not one grain of anything in the world that is sold in the free market. Not one. The only place…

— Dwayne Andreas

Politics is not like an ocean voyage or a military campaign... something which leaves off as soon as reached. It is not…

— Plutarch

We have federal regulations and state laws that prohibit hunting ducks with more than three rounds. And yet it's legal to hunt…

— Dianne Feinstein

As a politician who cherishes religious conviction in his personal sphere, but regards politics as a domain belonging outside religion, I believe…

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

November is Hip-Hop History Month, where we give celebration to what hip hop has done to bring together people of the world,…

— Afrika Bambaataa

The President is no more than a well-meaning baboon. I went to the White House directly after tea, where I found "The…

— George B. McClellan

What's four years in our long American history? Remember when I asked that wheelchair-bound politician to "stand up." It turns me off…

— Joe Biden

We have a broken system, and we need politicians who are going to fix it. We need someone who's going to govern…

— Diane Guerrero

I met too frankly preposterous, if it weren't for their banal evil, politicians and pastors who told knowing lies about the evils…

— Stephen Fry

The true men of action in our time those who transform the world are not the politicians and statesmen but the scientists.…

— Anonymous

What reason is there for believing that a high death rate, in itself, is undesirable? To my knowledge none whatever. The plain…

— H. L. Mencken

Modern American politicians have the same cowardice about denying an equally bloodthirsty even sillier god, Jehovah. None of us would seriously consider…

— Bertrand Russell

The American middle class, it seems to me, is looking to politicians now to satisfy a pretty basic - and urgent -…

— Judith Warner

Adam Clayton Powell's entire political career has to be looked at in the entire context of the American history and the history…

— Malcolm X

The technology is available to us today to begin the transition to 100 percent renewable energy. What is keeping us from making…

— Mark Ruffalo

Most members of Congress are politicians. They're bores. They're damn boring. They have no imagination, and they don't know how to imagine…

— Ray Bradbury

[The politician] is asked to stand, he wants to sit, and he is expected to lie.

— Winston Churchill

We as artists cannot be politicians. We as artists can only be truth-tellers.

— Viola Davis

I always tell people this: to be a savvy politician or a good head of state and to be charitable are not…

— Natalie Dormer

The impression that you are a demigod worried me. I wanted to be like an ordinary human being with virtues and vices.

— Nelson Mandela

I'm very glad I'm not a politician. I think it's one step away from the gates of hell, being a politician. I…

— Jeremy Irons

Political speeches might represent the ideas of the politician at hand, but often times, it's not written in their own words.

— Ana Kasparian

I know politicians - I know politicians, believe it or not, better than you [Ted Cruz] do. And it's not good.

— Donald Trump

In Pakistan, if you have to become a cricketer you have to be a politician first.

— Wasim Akram

You are more committed to things that you give money to - whether it is a church or a politician.

— Roy Blunt

A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.

— George Will

I don't like it, to be honest, when politicians make a big thing of their religious beliefs, so I don't make a…

— Tony Blair

There's a suspicion always about politicians. The suspicion level is really elevated and it just feels like people do not trust their…

— Christopher Michael Cillizza

I am an educationist. I'm an economist. I am a politician. I am also now a good storyteller, you know?

— Robert Mugabe

My past is no secret to anyone. I'm a blackguard and a sinner, and everyone knows it. These days, that's almost an…

— Jennifer Ashley

Over the years, I have seen too many politicians ruin their careers because they could not accept defeat graciously.

— Jean Chretien