Politician Quotes · Page 66

The more that I know of politics, the more it makes me realize that being a politician is largely useless.

— Sophia Bush

When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers.

— Walter Lippmann

Well what a turn-up. From professional footballer to television presenter to green politician. Whatever next?

— David Icke

I don't consider myself a politician or a hero. I'm a messenger. If Cambodia is to survive, she needs many voices.

— Dith Pran

I get always a little uptight when I hear politicians say how exceptional America is.

— John F. Kerry

I've always liked politicians and lawyers. They keep the PR professional's status at least two from the bottom of the ethical food…

— Shel Israel

There's something inherently comic about the fact that politicians make things worse by worrying too much about something.

— Armando Iannucci

I never wanted to be a career politician. I always am interested just to take on challenges that everyone says are impossible…

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

Hearing politicians tell us we can't afford a tax cut is like listening to a glutton tell you he can't afford a…

— Ann Coulter

If you're a politician it's very useful to say that we can have economic growth and at the same time green the…

— Michael Pollan

Remember in 1973 the same science chatter said that the coming Ice Age is going to occur, we're going to lose millions…

— Don Young

What's new is that the White House itself has now been corporatized. It's not politicians working for the corporate interests. They are…

— Jim Hightower

Women politicians take their job seriously and accomplish their duties diligently and sensitively. Only they can understand the problems of women and…

— Preneet Kaur

Howard Dean is not the first politician to distort facts in his own interests. But many activists in the party he now…

— Robert Novak

Steve Jobs was an iconic entrepreneur and businessman whose impact on technology was felt beyond Silicon Valley. He will be remembered for…

— Meg Whitman

Advocacy groups and voters are not wrong to push candidates to declare their position clearly on policy issues. That is good citizenship.…

— Mark McKinnon

It is visible then that it was not any Heathen Religion or other Idolatrous Superstition, that first put Man upon crossing his…

— Bernard de Mandeville

The reason the first three Star Wars movies were so terrific, and the second three sucked so bad, is actually very simple.…

— Bill Whittle

The average politician speaks out of both sides of their mouth. No matter if it's Canada or the United States. And it's…

— Doug Ford, Jr

Hope drives us to invent new fixes for old messes, which in turn create ever more dangerous messes. Hope elects the politician…

— Margaret Atwood

In April [1972], after that fine business in Dacca, Yahya Khan sent for me. He looked satisfied, sure of himself, by now…

— Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

I think she [Eleanor Roosevelt] was a shrewd politician, and very good in public relations, although she had the usual media help…

— William A. Rusher

Successful democratic politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle, or otherwise manage…

— Walter Lippmann

Interestingly, the British government announced a few weeks ago that they were going to introduce 500 educational targets for preschool children. And…

— David Icke

“It is possible to be a retard and a politician. In fact, it’s almost a prerequisite.”

— Jarod Kintz

It is my right and my duty as a politician to speak about the problems in our country.

— Geert Wilders

Any politician who tells you morality has nothing to do with the law and government is about to do something extremely immoral.

— Joseph Farah

Remember that the biggest thing you could do today is a small act of kindness.

— Cory Booker

My mum wanted me to be a doctor like my dad, and at 7, I really wanted to be a politician, and…

— Leo Varadkar

Politicians are easy to attack, but frankly, we are all guilty of not meeting the needs of Africa's young people properly.

— Ama Ata Aidoo

I am not a politician in prison, I am a political prisoner who uses jail to denounce Spain's human rights violations.

— Jordi Cuixart

[On whether she would want daughter Tricia to marry a politician:] I would feel sorry for her if she did.

— Pat Nixon

Some newspapers have a hands-off policy on favored politicians. But it's generally very small newspapers or local TV stations.

— Bob Woodward

You don't need qualifications as an actor or a politician. And I didn't want to be a politician.

— James Garner

I'm not a politician; I am a singer. Long ago, they said, 'That one, she sings politics.' I don't sing politics; I…

— Miriam Makeba

I am not a politician. I am an engineer who has spent most of his career working in factories that manufacture the…

— Brian Krzanich

My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised.

— Jesse Jackson

After long experience of politics, I have never found that there is any inhibition caused by ignorance as regards criticism.

— Harold MacMillan

In a society like ours, politics is improvisation. To the artful dodger rather than the true believer goes the prize.

— Gore Vidal

Shouldn't homophobic politicians and anti-gay bullies be presumed to be gay until they get caught up in a straight sex scandal?

— Dan Savage