Politician Quotes · Page 61

When a politician is in opposition he is an expert on the means to some end; and when he is in office…

— Anonymous

The ability to change one's views without losing one's seat is the mark of a great politician.

— Mo Udall

Sometimes I wonder whether Washington's liberal politicians truly understand the greatness that is America.

— Mitt Romney

My personal opinion is that I'm in the media too much. I'm not a politician, I'm a businessman. I would like to…

— Viktor Vekselberg

The government recognized immediately that Rap music has enormous revolutionary potential and politicians immediately came together to end it.

— Assata Shakur

It was a new kind of class war -- the people as citizens versus the politicians and their clients in the public…

— Irving Kristol

Sarah Palin has decided not to run for President and go straight to the quitting part.

— Andy Borowitz

Politicians will always spend every penny of tax raised and whatever else they can get away with.

— Milton Friedman

People are disgusted. They're disgusted with their politicians. They're disgusted with our trade deals. They're disgusted with the fact that the military…

— Donald Trump

Politics is a thing that I follow because it determines what is going on in my country, but I vote and deal…

— Henry Rollins

I happen to believe that if we want to replace a lifetime politician like Barack Obama, who had no experience leading anything...…

— Mitt Romney

Roaming the world as a foreign correspondent for more than a decade, I was able to observe how a variety of vastly…

— Louis Rukeyser

The faith religious believers have in God is small compared to the faith people put in politicians, knowing how many times they…

— Jonathan Sacks

The markets want to force us to do certain things. That we won't do. Politicians have to make sure that we're unassailable,…

— Angela Merkel

[Lyndon ] Johnson was responding to a black freedom movement that was tearing the country open and he did what he had…

— Bill Ayers

Politicians, no matter who they are, shouldn't be able to manipulate the public on a single issue and then call an election…

— Jim Bolger

Sometimes a politician gets up and talks about British values and what we think that means, and we can be knocked down…

— Amber Rudd

The truth is I am beholden to no one, nobody's gonna tell me what to do, no - no group that owns…

— Donald Trump

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

We will finally complete the biometric entry-exit visa tracking system, which we need desperately. For years Congress has required biometric entry-exit visa…

— Donald Trump

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

There is no virtue in compulsory government charity, and there is no virtue in advocating it. A politician who portrays himself as…

— Anonymous

“The advantages of a hereditary Monarchy are self-evident. Without some such method of prescriptive, immediate and automatic succession, an interregnum intervenes, rival…

— Anonymous

A statesman is he who thinks in the future generations, and a politician is he who thinks in the upcoming elections.

— Abraham Lincoln

When you notice that politicians and the media are after you, it makes you all the more determined to find out the…

— Travis Tygart

I'm going to focus on people and what they need, not on name calling between politicians.

— Charles Schumer

I went in to play the most corrupt politician I could possibly think of [in "The Congressman"] and to do it with…

— George Hamilton

There is this great idea about the logic of a politician, along the lines of: "Something must be done, this is something,…

— Antony Jay

Nixon, with his mellifluous baritone, was a great politician for radio but creepy on TV.

— Richard Corliss

American politicians do anything for money... English politicians take the money and won't do anything.

— Stephen Leacock

Politics is a game and a profession. It doesn't really serve the people the politicians are supposed to serve.

— Kit Harington

There are two impossibilities in life: "just one drink" and "an honest politician."

— H. L. Mencken

Any politician who can be elected only by turning Americans against other Americans is too dangerous to be elected.

— Thomas Sowell

I sleep well. It's the politicians who are to blame for failing to come to an agreement and resorting to violence.

— Mikhail Kalashnikov

[On going into politics:] My husband went to bed with Debbie Reynolds and he woke up with Eleanor Roosevelt.

— Barbara Boxer

I have realized why corrupt politicians do nothing to improve the quality of public school education. They are terrified of educated voters.

— Miriam

Look, Orrin Hatch is not a bad guy. But he is an old guy, and he's a lifer politician.

— Scott Howell

“Bad as political fiction can be, there is always a politician prepared to make it look artistic by comparison.”

— Christopher Hitchens

Action comes from keeping the heat on. No politician can sit on a hot issue if you make it hot enough.

— Anonymous