Politicians Quotes · Page 34

I think that the politicians who were beaten by Donald Trump and then endorsed him, that's something that they will carry and…

— Ross Douthat

For too long, Missouri has been run by career politicians, owned by corrupt consultants, high-paid lobbyists and special interests.

— Eric Greitens

Politicians study hard and work diligently their entire lives to be able to stand in front of a national audience and lie…

— Gregor Collins

Labour politicians for generations have fought to bring democracy to the House of Lords.

— Charles Kennedy

Political systems are run by self-selecting politicians. We don't draft people; it's not jury duty.

— P. J. O'Rourke

The country should not have to wonder whether politicians' stock trades were corrupt. It should not have to think about politicians' portfolios…

— Annie Lowrey

Politicians attend dinners at hotels with contractors. Bankers discuss interest rates at lunch.

— Jimmy Breslin

Cats and dogs believe politicians are like cemetery caregivers; they are on top of everyone, but nobody listens.

— Rita Mae Brown

Representative government has broken down. Our politicians represent not the people who vote for them but the commercial interests who finance their…

— Edward Abbey

I find it so astonishing how poorly a lot of politicians handle negative whatever in the press. You have to just get…

— Krystal Ball

Advocacy groups like Families U.S.A. imagine that once Medicaid becomes a middle-class entitlement, political pressure from middle-class workers will force politicians to…

— Scott Gottlieb

You can't have people making decisions about the future of the world who are scientifically illiterate. That's a recipe for disaster. And…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Culturally, I have always been part of the proletariat. I lived side by side with the sons of glassblowers, fishermen and smugglers.…

— Dario Fo

In every generation, politicians let us down, but music can lift us above the fighting and the mistakes. It does not offer…

— Stephen Hough

If we haven't got democracy, what have we got?... It is about the respect of politicians, it's building trust with our constituents.…

— Lindsay Hoyle

Politicians that proclaim big words without meaning rule in democracy. At best they allow themselves to discover that it's better to be…

— Janusz Korwin-Mikke

Senior politicians and police officers as well as their children get away with murder and run extortion rackets. It is all accepted…

— Sucheta Dalal

We don't have politicians with dignity and morals. We never have, not since [Nelson] Mandela and [Mahatma ] Gandhi. It's really rare.

— Marina Abramovic

I feel pretty disillusioned about the politics and politicians in this country - and angry.

— Lesley Sharp

Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.

— John F. Kennedy

Women politicians tend to lead by being accountable for results. We focus on goals and outcomes. You can't get by on just…

— Amy Klobuchar

We all know that looks matter, and modern politicians have always assumed that their battles are decided on both substance and image.

— Leonard Mlodinow

Drug reformers get seduced by politicians who co-opt our language but who make no meaningful change. And when we don't hold politicians…

— Carl Hart

The trouble for lots of politicians is they worry so much about everybody liking every single thing that they do.

— Jess Phillips

If the world was without politicians, how would we survive without the chaos they create?

— Frederick A Babb

True crime has long been a passion for me, but I'm also a sucker for biographies, particularly of politicians, writers, or Hollywood…

— Megan Abbott

Politicians like to tell people what they want to hear - and what they want to hear is what won't happen.

— Paul Samuelson

It is important that politicians defend their ability to act without fear or favour, and it is in the public interest that…

— Jeremy Corbyn

'Uprising' was requested by so many politicians in America for use in their rallies, and we turned them down on a regular…

— Matt Bellamy

Politicians, they give the visible aspect of the change, but the change, the root, the anchor are in young people.

— Elie Wiesel

I think people vote Ukip from a frustration with politics, which is legitimate, and which politicians have to listen to.

— Sajid Javid

Politicians often call for sanctions as a way of sounding tough when they don't want to take riskier measures.

— David Ignatius

I think politicians misjudge our intelligence. We can, and do, see through them. But I quite enjoy watching political programmes because they…

— Diana Rigg

It is of considerable importance that politicians stick to their commitments or do not make such commitments in the first place.

— Jacob Rees-Mogg

“Men without honor cannot build an honorable country. It is height of hypocrisy to expect a country of equity from such men.”

— Olawale Daniel

“You sanctimonious philistines, who scoff at me! What has your politics fed on since you've been ruling the world? On butchery and…

— Charles de Coster

The real question is "Why should we make an exception for billionaire politicians?". We should not.

— Tulip Siddiq

If politicians lived on praise and thanks they'd be forced into some other line of business.

— Edward Heath

“Secrecy is like oxygen to politicians and defense forces; there’s always got to be some of it to keep them going.”

— Peter F. Hamilton

Our children await Christmas presents like politicians getting in election returns: there's the Uncle Fred precinct and the Aunt Ruth district still…

— Marcelene Cox