Politician Quotes · Page 28

You can build a throne with bayonets, but it's difficult to sit on it.

— Boris Yeltsin

What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

— Angela Davis

Any politician is to a certain degree a mentor. They preach something.

— Dmitry Medvedev

I have to remind myself that I am a comic, I'm not a politician.

— Sara Pascoe

As many languages you know, as many times you are a human being

— Tomas Garrigue Masaryk

Barack Obama is one of the greatest politicians in American history.

— John Podhoretz

I am a politician, but I am also a Christian.

— Thomas de Maiziere

You know, a statesman is a dead politician.

— Arlen Specter

We as artists cannot be politicians. We as artists can only be truth-tellers.

— Viola Davis

Political speeches might represent the ideas of the politician at hand, but often times, it's not written in their own words.

— Ana Kasparian

I'm very glad I'm not a politician. I think it's one step away from the gates of hell, being a politician. I…

— Jeremy Irons

In Pakistan, if you have to become a cricketer you have to be a politician first.

— Wasim Akram

I know politicians - I know politicians, believe it or not, better than you [Ted Cruz] do. And it's not good.

— Donald Trump

The actor in me borrows from the politician and the politician in me borrows from the actor.

— Shatrughan Sinha

“There is not one politician in Burundi who would not murder another for the sake of one hour of political power.”

— UN Special Appointment to Burundi Ahmed Ould-Abdallah 95

Most politicians are either generalists or specialists. It's very rare that a politician is both.

— Margrethe Vestager

My father was a politician. My grandfather was a politician too, maybe it's an innate idea of representing people that we have…

— Eniola Aluko

It was a charming fantasy of romantics that the spies would stop spying, that political conflict would end and politicians would tell…

— John le Carre

Oh, princes thrive on caviar, the poor on whey and curds, / And politicians, I infer, must eat their windy words. /…

— Phyllis McGinley

No matter how many pro-freedom politicians we elect to office, the only way to guarantee constitutional government is through an educated and…

— Ron Paul

If a politician murders his mother, the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not that it…

— Meg Greenfield

The time is fast coming when politicians will cease to fear the religion of humanity and humanitarians will find entrance into political…

— Mahatma Gandhi

There is no limit to the hunger politicians have for the money you've worked so hard for. ... You can tell them…

— Neal Boortz

First and foremost, when I think of him - I'm prejudiced; I worked for the guy for six and a half years…

— John Podesta

Your politicians, priests, parents, they all are guilt-creators, because that is the only way that you can be controlled and manipulated. A…

— Rajneesh

I want to submit to you tonight that this country is not gospel-hardened; it is gospel-ignorant because most of its preachers are.…

— Paul Washer

Too many politicians seem to reach for 'infrastructure' as the default answer to investment, as if roads and bridges were the answer…

— Mariana Mazzucato

The fact that cultures are failing all over the world means that they don't know how to operate a society to make…

— Jacque Fresco

The capitalist has this over the politician and the clergyman; he has in practice done more to raise the standard of living…

— Dinesh D'Souza

Most of us are conditioned for many years to have a political viewpoint - Republican or Democratic, liberal, conservative, or moderate. The…

— John F. Kennedy

In the minds of many Western politicians, military interventions and air strikes appear to have become legitimate policy tools since the NATO…

— Vladimir Yakunin

You have the courage to tell the masses what no politician told them: you are inferior and all the improvements in your…

— Ludwig von Mises

I'm not a politician. I'm an educator.

— Miguel Cardona

Getting the truth out of any politician is hard.

— Bez

I don't want to associate myself with any specific group of politicians.

— Bill Nighy

A politician is not as narrow-minded as he forces himself to be.

— Will Rogers

“In order to be the master, the politician poses as the servant.”

— Charles de Gaulle

A politician ought to be born a foundling and remain a bachelor.

— Anonymous

Any politician can talk about resuscitating public trust.

— Dominic Grieve

There's something just so kind of smooth about politicians.

— Emile Hirsch