Politician Quotes · Page 51

A politician before he can become a statesman has to remain in office long enough.

— Manmohan Singh

Any time some politician tells you it's not about the money, it's about the money.

— Ted Cruz

No one since the Garden of Eden - which the serpent forsook in order to run for higher office - has imputed…

— William F. Buckley, Jr

Whenever a man reaches the top of the political ladder, his enemies unite to pull him down. His friends become critical and…

— Henry Adams

Politicians cannot create jobs or wealth. Such is axiomatic to straight thinkers.

— Greg Perry

I'm no politician but I do feel that a lot of damage was done because of misguided principals and America is still…

— Jack Bruce

I've never been disappointed by politicians. I've never invested that much in them in the first place.

— Paul Merton

Anti-European politicians tell more myths and fantasies about Europe than you can find in Harry Potter or The Da Vinci Code.

— Denis MacShane

Instead of plotting the demise of the traditional family, as some politicians and religious leaders would have you believe, gay people mow…

— Jodi Picoult

If a statesman is one who looks to the next generation and a politician one who looks to the next election, a…

— James Carville

Musicians have the power to influence people and along with movie makers, they can reach and influence more people than any group…

— Paul Watson

“The only politician I cared anything about at the moment was Benjamin Franklin, simply because his pretty, old face was plastered on…

— Chad Zunker

The problem we have is not Democrats versus Republicans. It is a Washington cartel. I've said many times the biggest divide we…

— Ted Cruz

You can bet the rent money that whatever politicians do will end up harming consumers. ... Economic ignorance is to politicians what…

— Walter E. Williams

These are the people we elected and if we are not satisfied we should get new candidates. It is in our hands.…

— Robert Stanfield

The most consistent and ultimately damaging failure of political journalism in America (is that it) has its roots in the clubby/cocktail personal…

— Hunter S. Thompson

Dalai Lama is transforming those criteria - and the whole way of conducting politics. He's conducting politics in a much deeper way…

— Pico Iyer

I think I've had a long, distinguished career in public service. It just goes to show you what some politicians will do.…

— Raymond Kelly

Churches can easily bring together, in a short period of time, a substantial number of people, and politicians have to assume that…

— Anthony B Pinn

The war between the artist and writer and government or orthodoxy is one of the tragedies of humankind. One chief enemy is…

— Helen Foster Snow

I don't see Sarah Palin suddenly spilling over to a wider group where suddenly they go, "Wait a minute, I've heard her…

— Barry Levinson

I am 60, and I am as much an internationalist as when I was younger, when I was a Marxist-Leninist. Internationalism is…

— Bernard-Henri Levy

Three strikes' laws make no sense as policy. They are more about the politicians responding to the people's desire to see their…

— Glenn Loury

Political systems must love poverty-they produce so much of it. Poor people make easier targets for a demagogue. No Mao or even…

— P. J. O'Rourke

I've become accustomed to supporting politicians who are more conservative than I am. This is not entirely a surprise.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

All politicians promise that which they cannot deliver. I just wish they did so less gleefully.

— Dov Davidoff

Funny that all of Nixon's crimes - anonymous campaign cash, wiretapping, undeclared wars - are all legal now. Discuss.

— Bill Maher

Our elected politicians do what they judge is the right thing to do. And if we disagree then I'll show them the…

— Michael Marmot

Politically, Swift was one of those people who are driven into a sort of perverse Toryism by the follies of the progressive…

— George Orwell

I'm not a politician. I don't know how to solve the problems of the world. But as an artist, I have one…

— Marjane Satrapi

I'm not a politician. I think that uniquely qualifies me to become president of the U.S.

— Roseanne Barr

You know there's no crooked politicians. There's never a lie because there is never any truth.

— Lenny Bruce

I think Hillary Clinton's a very clever politician but she would be too easy to stereotype the way John Kerry was.

— Maureen Dowd

Beware of all politicians everywhere. They excelled at recess when they were in school but have excelled at little since.

— Jim Rogers

I am an Orangeman first and a politician and member of this parliament [Stormont] afterwards.

— William Lane Craig

I think it's weird that people think someone who's not a politician could be the mayor of Chicago.

— Eric Zorn

I'm an actor I'm not a politician. I always kick myself when I talk too much about family, or personal things.

— Christian Bale

“Arthur Jelliby was a very nice young man, which was perhaps the reason why he had never made much of a politician.”

— Stefan Bachmann

There are some politicians who, if their constituents were cannibals, would promise them missionaries in every pot.

— H. L. Mencken

American journalists and politicians made a perfect spectacle of themselves in discussing the Abu Ghraib prison controversy.

— Tony Snow