Politician Quotes · Page 68

Politicians have limited power. They can't impose morality on themselves. How can they impose it on the country?

— Cal Thomas

He thinks like a Tory, and talks like a Radical, and that's so important nowadays.

— Oscar Wilde

Politicians who do not use the Bible to guide their public and private lives do not belong in office.

— Beverly LaHaye

No problem is so deep that it cannot be overcome, given the will of all parties, through discussion and negotiation rather than…

— Nelson Mandela

I never saw the man yet that came out of politics as clean as he went into 'em.

— Ellen Glasgow

“Most of most politicians’ answers are long-winded implicit ways of saying: ‘I don’t know’ or ‘I don’t want you to know’.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

It was so cold in the morning,I actually saw a politician with his hands in his own pockets.

— Anonymous

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

— Semir Zeki

Engaging in a sycophantic way with any politician in the short term is tempting. It offers the lure of access and the…

— Ben Domenech

... if you're a woman, all they can think about your relationship with a politician is that you're either sleeping with him…

— Gloria Steinem

With irrigation channels and rivers running dry and municipal water storage dams reaching record lows, California's politicians are getting desperate for solutions…

— Marc Levine

The very first time a politician puts you in his target is sometimes a disappointment, because perhaps you thought you were friends…

— Walter Cronkite

It's important for people not to hold a high opinion of politicians, and one of the strengths of the British is that…

— Richard Ingrams

The politicians think that I have not included enough of them; the nonpoliticians think that I have gone back to the old…

— Corazon Aquino

The Tea Party was really a two-front war - one against Obama, the other against any Republican politician who reeked of insiderdom…

— Steve Kornacki

“Launching a nice little war to divert national attention was a gambit no less appealing to nineteenth-century politicians than it is to…

— Jon Krakauer

Government, we are sometimes told, is just another word for things we choose to do together. Like a lot of things politicians…

— Glenn Reynolds

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

— Mark Ruffalo

It is like using a smoke screen, the same thing for an individual. The topic here is Islam. If French politicians are…

— Tariq Ramadan

If someone is gay and is searching for the Lord and has good will, then who am I to judge him? ...…

— Pope Francis

When Americans are asked to rank professions in terms of honesty and ethics, insurance agents routinely end up near the bottom of…

— James Surowiecki

In the period after the Second World War, there were still leaders in Europe who represented weak countries, but possessed a sense…

— Henry A. Kissinger

I had three points I wanted to make. That not everybody in Hollywood is on the left, that Obama has broken a…

— Clint Eastwood

“It’s about the call of his conscience. “It’s about the survival of the planet,” he says. “Nobody is going to care who…

— Susan Cain

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

— Harry Truman

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

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

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

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

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

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