Politician Quotes · Page 52

Up through and including Lincoln, American politicians nursed a fantasy of repatriating blacks to Africa.

— Ned Sublette

I would be an activist but never a politician. As an activist, nobody owns you.

— Sinbad

When politicians presume to do God's work, they do not become divine but diabolical.

— Pope Benedict XVI

Politicians live in little worlds of their own and imagine they are the universe.

— Michael Foot

What could be more important to the pursuit of happiness than the right to choose your spouse without asking a Washington politician…

— Lisa Murkowski

Diplomats make it their business to conceal the facts, and politicians violently denounce the politicians of other countries.

— Margaret Sanger

Politicians aren't any more wicked than other citizens but the situation in which they are placed warps their judgment.

— Helen Gahagan Douglas

[On Senator Everett Dirksen:] His great enemy was boredom and he won every engagement.

— Mary McGrory

There is no reason to believe that bureaucrats and politicians, no matter how well meaning, are better at solving problems than the…

— Elinor Ostrom

The politicians, who once stated that war was too complex to be left to the generals, now act as though peace were…

— Pierre Trudeau

At our church I do not endorse politicians publicly. Because I am afraid that if I endorse one candidate, it would keep…

— Max Lucado

I don't like trying to influence politicians, who are themselves representative of huge numbers of people. As an educator, I'd rather enlighten…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

The facts [on immigration system ] aren't known because the media won't report on them. The politicians won't talk about them and…

— Donald Trump

Donald Trump is the most outspoken, transparent, here's what I want to do, here's what I think we should do. There's no…

— Rush Limbaugh

Politics deserves much praise. Politics is a preoccupation of free men, and its existence is a test of freedom. The praise of…

— Bernard Crick

Life itself has so much politics, why should I make it my profession? I'm just a politician's son, not a politician myself.…

— Riteish Deshmukh

Washington flourished but the people did not share in its wealth. Politicians prospered, but the jobs left Americans want great schools for…

— Donald Trump

Politics in the United States consists of the struggle between those whose change has been arrested by success or failure, on one…

— Harold Rosenberg

There you see how absurd the reactions of the so-called markets are. For a long time, Italy was run by one of…

— Martin Schulz

It seemed like after the 80s and 90s there came a sort of weird time in politics, where something like Spitting Image…

— Armando Iannucci

When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man's moral constitution and make a temporary fool of him besides,…

— Mark Twain

Many politicians in the West cling to the notion of a partnership with Russia. They want to include [Vladimir] Putin, make compromises…

— Garry Kasparov

The truth is our immigration system is worse than anybody ever realized. But the facts aren't known because the media won't report…

— Donald Trump

How can I, that girl standing there, My attention fix On Roman or on Russian Or on Spanish politics? Yet here's a…

— William Butler Yeats

I saw a startling sight today, a politician with his hands in his own pockets.

— Mark Twain

“The only thing more dangerous than a politician who thinks about re-election, is a politician who doesn't think about re-election.”

— James Carville

Rock n' roll seems to have changed society much more than any politician, I think it really has.

— Roger Daltrey

Im sick and tired of politicians beating up on the IRS. We have the best and fairest tax-collection system in the world.

— Charles Rangel

“What can a sculptor do without the chisel and the hammer? And what can an impostor politician do without the ignorant and…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

Listen, I'm not a politician. I'm not a news reporter. I make music, and I act.

— Kat Graham

Milosevic was an outstanding politician who gave his all to serving his fatherland.

— Alexander Lukashenko

There is no visible sign that the current politicians in the US are willing to see the need for change.

— David Korten

[Donald] Trump is still Trump, and that means he says things that politicians just don't say.

— Don Gonyea

In America you can go on the air and kid the politicians, and the politicians can go on the air and kid…

— Groucho Marx

A house divided cannot stand for long. That goes for politicians and the rest of us.

— Willie D

Isn't that what our job to do is right there in media to discuss what politicians are doing so they stop doing…

— Eric Bolling

Life is getting better, but that won't stop a war if politicians and business people decide it's to their advantage to have…

— Octavia Butler

...Politics is not about facts. It is about what politicians can get people to believe.

— Thomas Sowell

I will make such a wonderful India that all Americans will stand in line to get a visa for India

— Narendra Modi

As compared with the college politician, the real article seems like an amateur.

— Woodrow Wilson