Politician Quotes · Page 33

Well what a turn-up. From professional footballer to television presenter to green politician. Whatever next?

— David Icke

The more that I know of politics, the more it makes me realize that being a politician is largely useless.

— Sophia Bush

Investing in women is smart economics, and investing in girls, catching them upstream, is even smarter economics.

— Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race?

— Thomas Sowell

I don't subscribe to the theory that all politicians are crap. I think the 'cool people' often take that position.

— Eddie Izzard

I am not a politician but I have dedicated the biggest part of my professional life to economic policy both in Greece…

— Lucas Papademos

All politicians, even the most idealistic ones, are looking for money, sucking up to rich people.

— Paul Theroux

We need a little more compassion, and if we cannot have it, then no politician or even a magician can save the…

— Dalai Lama

“When I hear a politician has died in a car accident, I think, “How tragic! Even if the car suffered only a…

— Jarod Kintz

I wanted to be a politician and a movie star. But I was born a writer. If you're born that, you can't…

— Gore Vidal

Corruption is when a politician uses public funds to deliver pistachio ice cream to his home and transfer garden furniture to his…

— Yair Lapid

The dropping of the Atomic Bomb is a very deep problem... Instead of commemorating Hiroshima we should celebrate... man's triumph over the…

— Frederick Soddy

You know, the media and politicians are always gonna be in a bit of tension with one another and probably most of…

— Tony Blair

I'm not a professional politician. I'm a professional problem solver, and I believe we should cut the salaries of senators and congressmen…

— Herman Cain

Shopping and buying and getting and having comprise the Great American Addiction. No one is immune. When the underclass riots in this…

— George Carlin

Spending is not caring. Spending is what politicians do instead of caring. Spending more does not guarantee success. Politicians like to measure…

— Grover Norquist

We are beginning to shift into life code. And in the process of shifting into life code, every life form on this…

— Juan Enriquez

If you go to the city of Washington, you will find that almost all of those corporation lawyers and cowardly politicians, members…

— Eugene V. Debs

It's clear the CIA was trying to play 'keep away' with documents relevant to an investigation by their overseers in Congress, and…

— Edward Snowden

That nations that have gone for equality, like Communism, have neither freedom nor justice nor equality, they've the greatest inequalities of all,…

— Margaret Thatcher

I have known a great many politicians who have not managed to stay in power for 16 years. I have nevertheless already…

— Jean-Claude Juncker

Change can only come from local citizens and politicians - it cannot be imposed by well-meaning foreigners - not least because a…

— Rory Stewart

Some Western politicians are already threatening us with not just sanctions, but also the prospect of increasingly serious problems on the domestic…

— Vladimir Putin

The Soviet transition to a new political structure shows that the Soviet strategists are thinking, planning and acting in broad terms, way…

— Anatoliy Golitsyn

If the abuse be enormous, nature will rise up, and claiming her original rights, overturn a corrupt political system.

— Samuel Johnson

I don't think I'm made of the right stuff to be a politician. I think I'm made to be a loose cannon.

— Penn Jillette

Donald Trump is sort of the first candidate of his type that non-politician, true outsider, was coming to shake up the system.

— Kellyanne Conway

Nothing is more dangerous that the politician who uses politics as a surrogate for an unsatisfactory personal life.

— Denis Healey

You have to define how much of a cultural politician you are as a performer. There are times where I just want…

— John Flansburgh

I have never understood why the politicians who are most eager to send soldiers into harm's way are always depicted as their…

— Joe Conason

As an actor, the experience that I have as a politician while sitting in Parliament - that helps me enrich myself as…

— Paresh Rawal

People are drooling for the truth. They want honesty from politicians, and they're not getting it.

— Kinky Friedman

“In essence, anyone who aspires to be a career politician is, by the very fact, unfit to serve.”

— Joseph Befumo

If a famous liberal politician received a fatal swirly, would the rest of them try to ban indoor plumbing or opposable thumbs…

— Rock Cowles

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

— Steven Soderbergh

Do we really want another politician in the White House America can't trust?

— John McCain

I have to say that the judges and our judiciary system makes better decisions than the politicians.

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

The one thing the police cannot protect us from is a politician like Bill de Blasio.

— Bill O'Reilly

It must be felt that there is no national security but in the nation's humble, acknowledged dependence upon God and His overruling…

— Franklin Pierce

American democracy is spoiled by people buying everything in sight and then selling and buying everything in sight, including our politicians.

— Russell Simmons