Looking for an honest politician is like looking for an ethical burglar. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
If politicians would think more they would act less. — George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax Copy Share Image
To every politician who is taking donations from the NRA, shame on you. — Emma Gonzalez Copy Share Image
Politicians are like weather vanes. Our job is to make the wind blow. — David R. Brower Copy Share Image
Action comes from keeping the heat on. No politician can sit on a hot issue if you make it hot enough. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Look, Orrin Hatch is not a bad guy. But he is an old guy, and he's a lifer politician. — Scott Howell Copy Share Image
“Bad as political fiction can be, there is always a politician prepared to make it look artistic by comparison.” — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
[On going into politics:] My husband went to bed with Debbie Reynolds and he woke up with Eleanor Roosevelt. — Barbara Boxer Copy Share Image
I sleep well. It's the politicians who are to blame for failing to come to an agreement and resorting to violence. — Mikhail Kalashnikov Copy Share Image
I have realized why corrupt politicians do nothing to improve the quality of public school education. They are terrified of educated voters. — Miriam Copy Share Image
I don't want to be a politician. I don't like politics. It's petty; it fights dirty. — John Mellencamp Copy Share Image
I find politicians so desperately boring. I don't trust them and don't believe in them. — Ewan McGregor Copy Share Image
Middle class America is acutely aware of how bad this economy is, and it is going to demand changes. I don't think… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
People are fed up. They are fed up with what's happening in Washington. They are fed up with both parties. They are… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
It would be some time before I fully realized that the United States sees little need for diplomacy. Power is enough. Only… — Boutros Boutros-Ghali Copy Share Image
People change their opinion according to your position. And both politicians and bureaucrats begin to take you more seriously, as they suddenly… — Rajeev Shukla Copy Share Image
The difference between de jure and de facto segregation is the difference between open, forthright bigotry and the shamefaced kind that works… — Shirley Chisholm Copy Share Image
The politician is your best friend - he always wants to be there when he's asking for your vote. But then, often,… — Kane Copy Share Image
I like to tell the streets what the political climate is, and I like to tell any politicians that's listening what the… — Ice Cube Copy Share Image
If you're looking for a slick politician or a guy with great teleprompter skills, we already have that. He's destroying our economy.… — Rick Perry Copy Share Image
The Left discovered that its post-electoral strategy of constant confrontation was actually helping Felipe Calderon and his popularity instead of undermining it.… — Denise Dresser Copy Share Image
We've got all these politicians talking about better health care and what all, but believe me, we're not going to have the… — T. Boone Pickens Copy Share Image
It has been obvious all along, to anyone paying attention, that the politicians shouting loudest about deficits are actually using deficit hysteria… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
What we face in Canada are multiple overlapping crises. We have the climate crisis, which is screaming down on us - all… — Avi Lewis Copy Share Image
In academic life, false ideas are merely false and useless ones can be fun to play with. In political life, false ideas… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
At the risk of repetition let me say again that my plea is not for immunity to, but for the most unsparing… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
You can't go home and look at your plaques at the end of the day, because every politician has like a million… — John Kasich Copy Share Image
Instead of going on a beach vacation to Hawaii, you could go to a Democratic convention, a state convention, a conference being… — Maxine Waters Copy Share Image