Politician Quotes · Page 34

I'm getting a little tired of politicians trying to prove how 'moderate' and 'centrist' they are by taking more of my money…

— Ann Coulter

Globalization has genuinely drained power away from national politicians and people feel it. People in our fast digital age are also frustrated…

— Anne Applebaum

It never fails to astonish me how cheaply a politician can be bought.

— Timothy Noah

Dont teach my boy poetry, an English mother recently wrote the Provost of Harrow. Dont teach my boy poetry; he is going…

— John F. Kennedy

I think politicians get hamstrung by the nature of politics when the private sector can really do great things.

— Henry Rollins

Hanging out with politicians and corporations is very unhip work. But I think that the U2 audience have turned out to be…

— Bono

“Politicians are like bad horsemen who are so preoccupied with staying in the saddle that they can’t bother about where they’re going.”

— Anonymous

Consider... the university professor. What is his function? Simply to pass on to fresh generations of numskulls a body of so-called knowledge…

— H. L. Mencken

NASA is an engine of innovation and inspiration as well as the world's premier space exploration agency, and we are well served…

— Bill Nye

With the Republican Party`s presidential front-runner proposing that all Muslims should be banned from entering the United States, that perhaps there ought…

— Rachel Maddow

I'll see Naomi Wolf on television periodically, I have nothing against her and what she says, but I'll feel that she's a…

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

The reason political party platforms are so long is that when you straddle anything it takes a long time to explain it.

— Will Rogers

The War on Drugs employs millions - politicians, bureaucrats, policemen, and now the military - that probably couldn't find a place for…

— L. Neil Smith

Incivility is a symptom, not the disease. We've always had partisan conflict in Congress, and we always will. Yet when I worked…

— Tom Allen

[On women getting the vote:] The newspapers, poor dears, looked of course for something very spectacular. But then newspapers are always apt…

— Margaret Case Harriman

[On Austen Chamberlain:] He is more loyal to his friends than to his convictions.

— Margot Asquith

I always defended my father, as a child, and I think I'm still defending him - his policies at least. Oh, he…

— Indira Gandhi

Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for…

— Khalil Gibran

I will deal with the politicians in a political way and with the nonpoliticians in a nonpolitical way.

— Muqtada al Sadr

By failing to read or listen to poets, society dooms itself to inferior modes of articulation: those of the politician, the salesman…

— Joseph Brodsky

Voting is not an act of political freedom. It is an act of political conformity. Those who refuse to vote are not…

— Wendy McElroy

Politics is not really politics any more. It is run, for the most part, by Madison Avenue advertising firms, who sell politicians…

— Helen Caldicott

Russia is a gas station masquerading as a country.

— John McCain

A politician who has no compassion is nothing but an evil apparition; he is just a ghost, not a real man!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

The definition of a gaffe is when a politician tells the truth.

— Michael Kinsley