Politician Quotes · Page 56

In Louisiana, we don't bet on football games, we bet on whether a politician is going to be indicted or not.

— Mark Duffy

Elections in L.A. are so different. Here you've got politicians with phony smiles making false promises to voters with fake boobs and…

— Jay Leno

The interesting thing about coaching is that you have to trouble the comfortable, and comfort the troubled

— Ric Charlesworth

“The captain of a ship can run a great ship, but he can't do anything about the tides.”

— Matthew Norman 2

A politician thinks about the next elections - the statesman thinks about the next generations.

— James Freeman

When your back is against the wall, there is only one thing to do, and that is turn around and fight.

— John Major

Unless we take action on climate change, future generations will be roasted, toasted, fried and grilled.

— Christine Lagarde

[I support] term limits for career politicians and the death penalty for career politicians.

— Bill Frist

No mainstream politician believes in open borders, but a policy that uses its prolonged treatment of detained people as an ongoing deterrent…

— Anthony Albanese

The politicians already in office don't want to change. A few might have it in their hearts to change and to start…

— Russell Simmons

Without an informed electorate, politicians will continue to use the bottom billion merely for photo opportunities, rather than promoting real transformation.

— Paul Collier

I learned in grade-school that after WWII European politicians considered sending Jews to Madagascar instead of Palestine. At the time I thought:…

— Jill Soloway

I think anyone who wants the social, political and economic equality for women can call themselves a feminist. It does get trickier,…

— Jessica Valenti

Education was not merely a means for earning a living or an instrument for the acquisition of wealth. It was an initiation…

— Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

The average politician goes through a sentence like a man exploring a disused mine shaft-blind, groping, timorous and in imminent danger of…

— Robertson Davies

People do have a - people, unlike politicians, are allowed to change their minds. People are allowed to look back and say,…

— Chris Matthews

As much as politicians, any politicians, Democrat or Republican, are saying they're trying to help the schools, it's hard because our country…

— Ansel Elgort

I gather you yellow-skinned men, despite your triumphs in sewage, drinking water, and Olympic gold medals, still don't have democracy. Some politician…

— Aravind Adiga

The question is not what anybody deserves. The question is who is to take on the God-like role of deciding what everybody…

— Thomas Sowell

We need to lower tax rates for everybody, starting with the top corporate tax rate. We need to simplify the tax code.…

— Herman Cain

When a politician like Marco Rubio is willing to sacrifice his career defining immigration reform legislation solely to insure that gays and…

— Harvey Fierstein

People ask, 'Is the science going to run ahead of the ethics?' I don't think that's always the problem. I think it's…

— Arthur Caplan

We have to work sincerely and responsibly to thwart any attempt to divide the Arab nation into small groups, with which foreign…

— Saddam Hussein

High tax rates in the upper income brackets allow politicians to win votes with class warfare rhetoric, painting their opponents as defenders…

— Thomas Sowell

The prospects of green economic opportunity is going to be determined to a great extent by politicians arriving at some sort of…

— Van Jones

All the media and the politicians ever talk about is things that separate us, things that make us different from one another

— George Carlin

The politician's prayer is: May my words be ever soft and low, for I may have to eat them.

— Norman Lamont

Politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don't.

— George Carlin

People don't believe that any politician is any different from any other one.

— Justin Trudeau

Carry always your earplugs with you in case of emergency, like meeting with a politician!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Unfortunately politicians are not very sound people or they wouldn't be politicians.

— Jim Rogers

Be honest. Be honest with yourself, be honest with, you know, your fellow politicians. This is a rare quality of politicians.

— Ma Ying-jeou

All of the promises of politicians, generals, madmen, and crusaders that war can create peace have yet to be borne out.

— Barbara Kingsolver

Finally, it occurs to me that the biggest problem with our elections is that however you vote, you wind up electing a…

— Burt Prelutsky

I accept that people are going to call me awful things every day, and I will always defend their right to do…

— Barack Obama

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

— Margot Asquith

You don't help a depressed economy by giving control of its resources to politicians.

— Robert P. Murphy

Modern candidates seem to have to live with political matters all the time. In my father's time, a politician's home was still…

— Rose Kennedy

Politicians are just a bunch of local bandits, sent by their local voters to raid the public treasury.

— Will Rogers

The other feature is a gymnasium named after another dead politician who was gifted with fast and extremely sure hands.

— Jimmy Breslin