Even a good politician, someone who is very ambitious, chooses not to see trouble. — Peter Sarsgaard Copy Share Image
Compassion is good but politicians have turned compassion into the welfare state. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Dependency is the highest political good - at least for politicians. Since the 1930s, politicians have striven to leave no vote unbought. — James Bovard Copy Share Image
“Physicists are not used to trimming or compromising their equations in order to get them accepted. Which is why they do not… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
I don't think I would be a good politician. I kid about it when I get a standing ovation. Sometimes I'll say,… — Liberace Copy Share Image
I can remember when a good politician had to be 75 percent ability and 25 percent actor, but I can well see… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
I suppose it's part of being a good politician to be able to spot the most important men in any group without… — Leslie Ford Copy Share Image
Nothing corrupts a politician quite as much as friendship. Good politicians don't bribe; they make us like them. — Matthew Parris Copy Share Image
There are clearly many good politicians who are guided by religious belief, so the mix can work. But there's a line to… — Zac Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Cats are oppressed, dogs terrify them, landladies starve them, boys stone them, everybody speaks of them with contempt. If they were human… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Politics is different, because the mission is always to get the necessary votes. A good politician goes through everything in terms of… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
All the politics in the world are nothing else but a kind of analysis of the quantity of probability in casual events,… — John Arbuthnot Copy Share Image
In the end, Ted Kennedy was a politician, plain and simple. Yet he embodied how politics and public service can be successfully… — Chuck Todd Copy Share Image
I learned early that business is business and politics is politics. The proof is how few important businessmen have made good politicians.… — Jean Chretien Copy Share Image
I don't see Sarah Palin suddenly spilling over to a wider group where suddenly they go, "Wait a minute, I've heard her… — Barry Levinson Copy Share Image
I generally think that Hillary Clinton is a good egg and a good politician. — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
We have at least learned that the offspring of presidents don't necessarily make good politicians themselves. — George Packer Copy Share Image
If experience teaches us anything at all, it teaches us this: that a good politician, under democracy, is quite as unthinkable as… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Good politicians need not be intellectuals, but they should have intellectual lives. — Gary Gutting Copy Share Image
I shall be a good politician. Even if it kills me. Or if it kills anyone else, for that matter. — Mark Antony Copy Share Image
To love one's country, the governance should be good. But politicians are addicts of power. It is because they don't read that… — Sreenivasan Copy Share Image
Yes, I'm married. But my wife understands that a good politician has to be appealing to the ladies. The fact that I… — Aziz Ansari Copy Share Image
Artists can be the most powerful people in the world because they can use their voice for good. Politicians should be the… — Oliver Sykes Copy Share Image
People have a wrong notion that film stars don't make good politicians. I must tell those who address stars with derogatory comments… — Jaya Prada Copy Share Image
In today's politics, it would be good to have politicians who are more upfront about what they felt and actually not trying… — Jim Broadbent Copy Share Image
I believe that all literatures can have political uses and misuses. Sometimes politics can enhance, sometimes it can get in the way… — Gayl Jones Copy Share Image
“That’s the difference between good military commanders and good politicians, John Geary. You’ve shown me that a good military commander spends the… — Jack Campbell Copy Share Image
Our modern lifestyle is not a political creation. Before 1700, everybody was poor as hell. Life was short and brutish. It wasn't… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
What is any political campaign save a concerted effort to turn out a set of politicians who are admittedly bad and put… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
