Politician Quotes · Page 30

Conflict is part of being a foreign correspondent; spending long hours talking to politicians in capitals is another part of it.

— Stephen Farrell

I'm not really into the political game as far as paying politicians and stuff like that, I'm not into that. You do…

— Ice Cube

All religions are equally sublime to the ignorant, useful to the politician, and ridiculous to the philosopher.

— Anonymous

The purpose of a politician is to be a leader. A politician has to lead. Otherwise he's just a follower.

— Alan Greenspan

“A job is like a politician struggling in the water. Be sure you hold it down.”

— Jarod Kintz

Shouldn't homophobic politicians and anti-gay bullies be presumed to be gay until they get caught up in a straight sex scandal?

— Dan Savage

In a society like ours, politics is improvisation. To the artful dodger rather than the true believer goes the prize.

— Gore Vidal

After long experience of politics, I have never found that there is any inhibition caused by ignorance as regards criticism.

— Harold MacMillan

I have not said your values are wrong. But neither are they right. They are simply judgments. Assessments. Decisions. For the most…

— Neale Donald Walsch

What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must…

— Lord Byron

The progressive movement needs more crazy and amoral/immoral right-wing politicians and pundits like Tom DeLay and Newt Gingrich and Ann Coulter and…

— Moby

I salute Rick Perry for the way he's trying to overcome this. Today he came out and said he's not one of…

— Craig Ferguson

Churchill the right-winger has been elevated to a status where you can't criticise him. People from the time remember him as an…

— Ken Loach

I think I want to go in to law or oncology, as those are both subjects that really interest me, but my…

— Joshua Rush

In the United States, unlike any other advanced democracy, money really talks. Our Supreme Court has said that spending money on politicians…

— T.R. Reid

Comedians and jazz musicians have been more comforting and enlightening to me than preachers or politicians or philosophers or poets or painters…

— Kurt Vonnegut

The art of manipulating public opinion, which is a necessary art for the democratic politician, and, like other arts, is sometimespractised with…

— George Bernard Shaw

Politicians and some of the scientists like to say that there's a consensus now on global warming or the science has been…

— Roy Spencer

It is hard to imagine, but in a Maryland school, a 13- year old girl was arrested for refusing to say the…

— Henry Giroux

In Democrats minds they've done it before. They got rid of Richard Nixon and they rendered George W. Bush irrelevant. They think…

— Rush Limbaugh

The bottom line is that if politicians weren't in the business of granting favors and exacting tribute, every single issue surrounding campaign…

— Walter E. Williams

Should hostilities once break out between Japan and the United States, it is not enough that we take Guam and the Philippines,…

— Isoroku Yamamoto

Back in the days of the Soviet Union, the countries of Eastern Europe, being under the control of the USSR, would call…

— Garry Kasparov

The successful politician owes his power to the fact that he moves within the accepted framework of thought, that he thinks and…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised.

— Jesse Jackson

I'm not a politician; I am a singer. Long ago, they said, 'That one, she sings politics.' I don't sing politics; I…

— Miriam Makeba

I am not a politician. I am an engineer who has spent most of his career working in factories that manufacture the…

— Brian Krzanich

You don't need qualifications as an actor or a politician. And I didn't want to be a politician.

— James Garner

Some newspapers have a hands-off policy on favored politicians. But it's generally very small newspapers or local TV stations.

— Bob Woodward

[On whether she would want daughter Tricia to marry a politician:] I would feel sorry for her if she did.

— Pat Nixon

I am not a politician in prison, I am a political prisoner who uses jail to denounce Spain's human rights violations.

— Jordi Cuixart

Politicians are easy to attack, but frankly, we are all guilty of not meeting the needs of Africa's young people properly.

— Ama Ata Aidoo

My mum wanted me to be a doctor like my dad, and at 7, I really wanted to be a politician, and…

— Leo Varadkar

Remember that the biggest thing you could do today is a small act of kindness.

— Cory Booker

Any politician who tells you morality has nothing to do with the law and government is about to do something extremely immoral.

— Joseph Farah

Politicians have limited power. They can't impose morality on themselves. How can they impose it on the country?

— Cal Thomas

My funny speech wasn't funny. That's not the first time a politician has done that.

— Elizabeth May

This country has had 200 years of hegemony over the rest of the world, and it feels like our politicians, they just…

— Donald Trump, Jr

“There isn’t a viler creature on earth than a politician who sends the children of others to the war but not his…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

In the old days I'd like to have been a politician, when I think the world was more idealistic. When I was…

— Sheila Hancock