Politician Quotes · Page 54

They worry one another like mastiffs, scrambling for rank and pay like apes for nuts.

— John Adams

I'm not a politician by profession. I am a citizen who decided I had to be personally involved.

— Ronald Reagan

For every alleged benefit that the politicians confer upon us, they must necessarily deprive us of something else.

— Henry Hazlitt

I'm not a politician; I'm lucky to be a filmmaker and to be able to express myself through the films I make.

— Mathieu Kassovitz

Politicians will not put forth programs aimed at the problems of poor blacks while their turnout remains so low.

— Henry Louis Gates

I've only very rarely sent a tweet to a politician. I think it could look a little too buddy-buddy if you're tweeting…

— Ed Henry

If we are now holding late-night talk-show hosts to the same moral accountability as we hold politicians or clergymen, I'm out. I'm…

— Craig Ferguson

Fake sympathy is the politicians demanding more cash as they ignore the underlying crisis. They prefer money over morality.

— Greg Gutfeld

I think that President Trump found it - which is what America, what all of us, were starving for the whole time…

— Reince Priebus

Consensus politics is a cyclical thing-in order to accumulate power, one must dispose of it, and as one disposes of it, one…

— Tom Wicker

Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a…

— B. R. Ambedkar

I think there's a suspicion in the South of people putting on airs. You see it in most successful Southern politicians, but…

— John Shelton Reed

Pakistanis can't trust. They've seen in history that people, particularly politicians, are corrupt. And they're misguided by people in the name of…

— Malala Yousafzai

I like my politicians and my judges and my lawyers to be simple. I think if you worry about where your hemline…

— Joan Rivers

Cable television is basically now the business of former political professionals. Joe Scarborough, a former Florida Congressman, is a far more successful…

— Michael Wolff

I have privately met with victims of the former Unification Church, and directly heard about their horrifying experiences. As a politician, I…

— Fumio Kishida

I just think the more the media uses their time-honored blueprint techniques to destroy Republican politicians... It hasn't worked on Trump yet,…

— Rush Limbaugh

We want to be famous as a writer, as a poet, as a painter, as a politician, as a singer, or what…

— Harry Crews

Organisms are starting to move in response to climate change all over the place. Bees are disappearing and we don't have many…

— Paul R. Ehrlich

One day you and I will have to have a little talk about this business called love. I still don't understand what…

— Oriana Fallaci

Some Israeli politicians have proposed the transfer of Palestinians out of what is currently called Israel, either into the occupied territories, into…

— Judith Butler

Some French politicians have said that the European Union should drop sanctions against Russia so everybody can join together in this fight…

— Corey Flintoff

I was getting mad at the system or the politicians or the government, and then I realized someone should talk about this…

— Shane Smith

Right away when I got to college, I realized that being a politician sucks. It's really hard! It wasn't for me. B.J.…

— Ike Barinholtz

On the way up here to the podium, a gentleman came up to me and said, "Governor, you are as good a…

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

“My problem wasn’t that he was a vamp, or that he was gay. I didn’t like him because he was a politician.”

— Chantal Halpin

Do politicians understand just how difficult it could be, just how devastating rises of 4C, 5C or 6C could be? I think,…

— Nicholas Stern

I am not going to be the sort of politician who does all that stuff about their private life.

— Liz Kendall

The difference between a politician and a snail is that the snail leaves its slime behind. Whoever named it necking was a…

— Groucho Marx

Get power but don't admit to it. Do it by stealth. There's a whole trend of Rhodes scholars who will be politicians…

— Mel Gibson

If there was a university degree for greed, you cunts would all get first-class honours.

— Paul Keating

Politicians who are willing to spend too much are the ones who get reelected.

— John Templeton

I hear from people all the time and it infuriates me that 'President Obama's a brilliant politician.' No he absolutely is not.

— Dan Bongino

Politics is a war of causes; a joust of principles. Government is too serious a matter to admit of meaningless courtesies.

— Woodrow Wilson

If experience teaches us anything at all, it teaches us this: that a good politician, under democracy, is quite as unthinkable as…

— H. L. Mencken

Tolerance is an admirable intellectual gift; but it is of little worth in politics.

— Woodrow Wilson

At times, the most dangerous politicians have been those impelled by dreams and ideals, rather than basic realities.

— Clarence H. Burns

But then, he thought, most politicians are small and shabby, the sort of people who have been bullied at school. That's why…

— Anthony Horowitz

I am not in politics. 'President Mutombo?' No, no, no. There has never been a politician in my family, and I am…

— Dikembe Mutombo

If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.

— H. L. Mencken