Politician Quotes · Page 35

Confucius say... politician is one who shakes your hand before elections and your confidence after.

— Confucius

I've learned in my years as a journalist that when a politician says 'That's ridiculous' you're probably on the right track

— Amy Goodman

When the people fear the government there is tyranny, when the government fears the people there is liberty.

— Thomas Jefferson

It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

— Francis Bacon

It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.

— Jean Baudrillard

Socialism is humanity's second nature. All politicians do is turn human vice into votes.

— Ilana Mercer

Get thee glass eyes, and like a scurvy politician, seem to see the things thou dost not.

— William Shakespeare

I believe that history is not made by cynics; it is made by realists who are not afraid to dream. Let us…

— Tzipi Livni

Heads of state are notoriously ill prepared for their mature careers; think of Adolf Hitler (landscape painter), Ho Chi Minh (seaman), and…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

Desmond Morris says that men make better artists because they are greater risk-takers; on the other hand, he thinks that women are…

— Grayson Perry

Things poll well, but people don't believe that politicians are telling the truth. Politicians might mention renewable energy, and the public will…

— Zephyr Teachout

My father was a politician and I had no contacts in the music industry, but I could still do some good work…

— Jubin Nautiyal

Politics is different, because the mission is always to get the necessary votes. A good politician goes through everything in terms of…

— Colin Powell

Don't underestimate the value people place on authenticity. Politicians listen to the focus groups and say the things they think people want…

— Rochelle B Lazarus

It seems to be in fashion among Russian politicians to blame Berezovsky for everything. Soon they'll be holding him responsible for global…

— Alexander Lebedev

The people we talk about around water cooler at work or at school, they're all the people who are visible in our…

— Crowder

I guess I am nostalgic for a time - the nineteenth century and early twentieth - when writers were, to use Stefan…

— Pankaj Mishra

“did you ever hear of a politician who wasn’t elected on a platform of economy in office?” “That isn’t it,” I said.…

— Erle Stanley Gardner

I'm making a lot of money. I should be paying a lot more taxes. I'm not paying taxes at a rate that…

— David Simon

This is education, understood as a help to life; an education from birth, which feeds a peaceful revolution and unites all in…

— Maria Montessori

Politicians and bureaucrats clearly have no idea how complicated markets are. Every day people make countless tradeoffs, in all areas of life,…

— John Stossel

A politician is not allowed to get too emotional in public, so what he does is drop subtle hints that, over time,…

— Anonymous

“A politician, a man engaged in party contests, must be an opportunist. Let us give up saying that word as if it…

— Woodrow Wilson

Bill Clinton is the master politician. In one way, you can say that he was never really about self-enrichment - he was…

— Jeffrey St. Clair

A man of abilities and character, of any sect whatever, may be admitted to any office of public trust under the United…

— Edmund Randolph

My biggest ambition is to bring together what happens in the real world with what politicians talk about.

— Johann Lamont

There is one sure way of telling when politicians aren't telling the truth - their lips move.

— Anonymous

The link between my experience as an entrepreneur and that of a politician is all in one word: freedom.

— Silvio Berlusconi

Becoming a politician is the only step down I could take from being a journalist.

— Jim Hightower

Accusing a politician of being politically expedient is like accusing water of being wet or circles for being round.

— Greg Gutfeld

As a young politician, I voted against the return of Sinai and peace with Egypt. I was mistaken.

— Ehud Olmert

I'm not a politician. I'm somebody who knows the world can be better, and I'm willing to fight for it.

— DeRay Mckesson

Never vote for the best candidate, vote for the one who will do the least harm.

— Frank Dane

When politicians talk about immigration reform, they usually mean the following, amnesty, open borders, lower wages.

— Donald Trump

Any realistic vision of change must be based on the notion of empowerment of people.

— Michael Manley

The truth about the climate crisis is still inconvenient for the large carbon polluters and the politicians who are in their pockets.

— Al Gore

“Given time, Washington DC. has a way of making a Politician out of an Honest Man.”

— Ron Rinna

No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.

— Winston Churchill

Advocacy groups, politicians, and bureaucrats use the government to advance their private good instead of the common good.

— Joel Miller

The traits in career politicians the public detests most are produced when ego triumphs over principle.

— Tom Coburn