Politician Quotes · Page 17

If I was a politician right now I would change just about everything.

— David Coverdale

I am the people's politician. If the day should ever come when the people can't save me, I'll know I'm finished.

— Shirley Chisholm

Be honest. Be honest with yourself, be honest with, you know, your fellow politicians. This is a rare quality of politicians.

— Ma Ying-jeou

A politician should not be written off till he or she is cremated.

— George Fernandes

Castro, without question, is one of the smartest politicians that's ever walked.

— Steven Soderbergh

I'm not a politician. My conscience has brought me before you. Give me a chance to serve you.

— Gurpreet Ghuggi

Politics is the practical exercise of the art of self-government, and somebody must attend to it if we are to have self-government;…

— Elihu Root

We're not seeing, you know, dozens of reporters being beaten up. And there may be more attention to it than there has…

— Tom Rosenstiel

Priests, kings, statesmen, soldiers, bankers and public functionaries of all sorts; policemen, jailers and hangmen; capitalists, usurers, businessmen and property-owners; lawyers, economists…

— Mikhail Bakunin

The old freedom sufficiently survives in the mind of the wage earner to give him the illusion that, while accepting insurance and…

— Hilaire Belloc

[Barack] Obama doesn't disappoint me, because all during the campaign he said, I'm a pragmatic, middle-of-the-road, compromising politician.

— Bill Ayers

Everything is possible, from angels to demons to economists and politicians.

— Paulo Coelho

I'm fascinated by politicians, because I suspect the huge majority of them go into it full of ideas and for the best…

— Kevin Whately

I wonder why people work so hard to become politicians just in order to do something wrong.

— Masuji Ibuse

To really tackle poverty, politicians, activists, academics will all have to think outside their boxes, will have to start developing much more…

— Sasha Abramsky

If politicians were serious about day care for children, instead of just sloganizing about it, nothing they could do would improve the…

— Thomas Sowell

I liked it when we had ugly politicians who droned on about issues.

— Ken Livingstone

It's always the small people who change things. It's never the politicians or the big guys. I mean, who pulled down the…

— Luc Besson

In general people put too much faith in the rich, the famous, the politicians, and not enough faith in themselves.

— Bono

We have no eternal allies, and we have not perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal and perpetual, and those interests it is…

— Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston

Actors who have tried to play Churchill and MacArthur have failed abysmally because each of those men was a great actor playing…

— William Manchester

Black men of integrity cannot make a deal with a politician and leave out the poor of the nation, all God's children.

— Jesse Jackson

I'm not a politician. I don't pretend to be a politician. I'm an independent.

— Robin Leach

... both individuals and companies are using the Netherlands as a haven for productive activity. ... This is good news for all…

— Daniel J. Mitchell

I've always resented the smug statements of politicians, media commentators, corporate executives who talked of how, in America, if you worked hard…

— Howard Zinn