Politician Quotes · Page 57

Democracy cannot consist solely of elections that are nearly always fictitious and managed by rich landowners and professional politicians.

— Che Guevara

Politicians, ugly buildings, and whores all get respectable if they last long enough.

— Robert Towne

My function in life is not to be a politician in Parliament: it is to get something done.

— Bernadette Devlin

I refer to a negro politician as a negro who is selected by Negroes and who is backed by Negroes.

— Malcolm X

Interviewing politicians and movie stars, you know what you'll get. I like the people-stories better.

— Shepard Smith

You mustn't judge a politician by talk. You have to judge them by performance.

— Milton Friedman

A statesman is a politician who places himself at the service of the nation. A politician is a statesman who places the…

— Georges Pompidou

Politicians, they give the visible aspect of the change, but the change, the root, the anchor are in young people.

— Elie Wiesel

I'm not a detail guy. I depend on accountants and administrators to do my detail stuff for me, but I do know…

— John Paul DeJoria

I’m not being weird, you’re being a little rude. Don’t you think as a host, when I say ‘this is what I…

— Christine O'Donnell

And he gave it for his opinion, "that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow…

— Jonathan Swift

But I don't feel that as a politician I'm hugely different. Obviously I have a different set of experiences that chime with…

— Jo Swinson

It is too early for politicians to presume on our forgetting that the public good, the real welfare of the great body…

— James Madison

President Obama is a gifted politician. He is gifted with rhetoric virtuosity. He is gifted with the ability to lie directly to…

— Ben Shapiro

Charlie Chaplin, too, through spectacle, contraband certain ideas, put them through, ideas that even today are not being expressed by great statesmen…

— Sergio Leone

Dogbert: So, Since Columbus is dead, you have no evidence that the earth is round. Dilbert: Look. You can Ask Senator John…

— Scott Adams

Ronald Reagan, and before him, Richard Nixon, and before Nixon, a slew of conservative politicians going back through American history, have played…

— Sasha Abramsky

For me, respect is an extremely important political term. Since I began campaigning, it has been at the heart of each of…

— Martin Schulz

I think that if you see that people are laughing, you know they haven't given up hope. You see that people are…

— Lizz Winstead

I have run large organizations, I know what it takes to create a healthy business climate, and I have more experience than…

— Meg Whitman

“Meditation is the way to be with ourselves and to learn to accept our own aloneness. In aloneness, I experiment with being…

— Swami Dhyan Giten

We humans are naturally disposed to worship gods and heroes, to build our pantheons and valhallas. I would rather see that impulse…

— Stephen Fry

Doesn't matter what the press says. Doesn't matter what the politicians or the mobs say.Doesn't matter if the whole country decides that…

— J. Michael Straczynski

As long as we continue to think we will be happy in the future, we will never be happy in the moment,…

— Aminu Kano

In the course of his presidency, Obama has gone from an almost magical charismatic figure to an ordinary politician. Ordinary. Average.

— Charles Krauthammer

The chance to be seen as a warm, witty guy is too good an opportunity for a politician to miss.

— Robert Orben

Men say I am a saint losing himself in politics. The fact is that I am a politician trying my hardest to…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Preventing war is the work of politicians, establishing peace is the work of educationists.

— Maria Montessori

I've never been inspired by a politician in France, and I think a lot of my own generation think that way.

— Jain

Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.

— Aristophanes

There will be a whole new spirit blowing through Texas. There will be a smile on everybody's face and a chill up…

— Kinky Friedman

It is largely on television and radio that real probing of what politicians are up to has to happen.

— John Humphrys

People think that the politician is just part of a system, and whether they're lying or not doesn't matter.

— Zephyr Teachout

I dont usually make political comments, because I am a businessman, not a politician.

— John Gokongwei

There are men who desire power simply for the sake of the happiness it will bring; these belong chiefly to political parties.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

What right does a politician have to tell me what I can and cannot watch? Change the channel if you don't like…

— Drew Carey

We don't have politicians with dignity and morals. We never have, not since [Nelson] Mandela and [Mahatma ] Gandhi. It's really rare.

— Marina Abramovic

Cats and dogs believe politicians are like cemetery caregivers; they are on top of everyone, but nobody listens.

— Rita Mae Brown

The contradictory remarks of politicians are forgotten; the more asinine predictions of pundits are buried with mercy.

— Norman Mailer

I have experienced failure as a politician and for that very reason, I am ready to give everything for Japan,

— Shinzo Abe