The only place you see a free market is in the speeches of politicians. — Dwayne Andreas Copy Share Image
A politician is someone who promises a bridge even when there's no water — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
Over and over, we hear politicians say they can't spend our tax dollars on environmental protection when the economy is so fragile. — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
I'm a member of the Academy, but I don't know who all the other Academy members are. It's not like a politician… — Albert Brooks Copy Share Image
The whole reason we organize grassroots is, we think any politician that gets elected needs to be held accountable 365 days a year. — Chris Matthews Copy Share Image
(and Catholics give out forgiveness at about the same rate as politicians give out promises and whores give out) — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
If you ignore the murdering and the conniving, Francis Underwood is an effective politician. — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
The problem with a politician’s quote on Facebook is you don’t know whether or not they really said it. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
'Socialist' is the nastiest thing you can say about an American politician in some quarters. — Jay McInerney Copy Share Image
The path of those who preach love, and not hatred, is not easy. They often have to wear a crown of thorns. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
A system that rewards politicians skilled at campaigning - which is the art of creating an illusion - and that puts hundreds… — John Stossel Copy Share Image
My greatest political asset, which professional politicians fear, is my mouth, out of which come all kinds of things one shouldn’t always… — Shirley Chisholm Copy Share Image
I think it's the real world. The people we're writing about in professional sports, they're suffering and living and dying and loving… — Red Smith Copy Share Image
But I was an utterly hopeless politician and I worked out that I would be much better suited to making money and… — Dido Harding Copy Share Image
I think one could argue that there's more political input into the regulatory side, and on the regulatory side there seem to… — Jamie Dimon Copy Share Image
To me, a mark of maturity is realizing that nobody runs the world. Fat cat politicians and secret conspiracies don't control our… — George Meyer Copy Share Image
I don't even pretend we can occupy the Lib Dem holier-than-thou, hands-entirely-clean-and-entirely-empty-type stance. No, we are getting our hands dirty, and inevitably… — Nick Clegg Copy Share Image
One of the oddities of this election is the man that [Donald] Trump chose as his vice-president, Mike Pence, is one of… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
Like other magicians, Obama has chosen his distractions well. The insurance industry is currently his favorite distraction as scapegoats, after he has… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
I think all senior politicians tend to be rather more subtle then the commentators would have it. It is a natural tendency… — Tony Abbott Copy Share Image
“The other type of politician tends to be manipulative, selfish, and have unhealthy needs to be the center of attention. These people… — Richard L. Hughes Copy Share Image
Accuse American businessmen of being responsible for radicalism and they would indignantly deny the accusation. Yet, in one fundamental sense, they are… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
I also believe my home state is cursed by ignorance and poverty and racism, much of it deliberately inculcated to control a… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
A writer's life is a highly vulnerable, almost naked activity. We don't have to weep about that. The writer makes his choice… — Harold Pinter Copy Share Image
Every time I would give a talk, someone would say, 'You ought to go into politics.' I prefer to call it government… — Brad Wenstrup Copy Share Image
What I'd like to see is a private [healthcare] system without the artificial lines around every state. I have a big company… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Cheap cigars come in handy; they stifle the odor of cheap politicians. — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
My job is to look at what politics is doing, not be a politician myself. — Antonio Tabucchi Copy Share Image