Politician Quotes · Page 64

God has no role to play in politics except to make sure politicians go where they belong. To hell.

— P. J. O'Rourke

If you want to curry favor with a politician, give him credit for something someone else did.

— James Abourezk

Politics in a democracy is transactional: Politicians seek votes by promising to do things for voters, who seek promises in exchange for…

— George Will

Never trust a politician, Todd. They have no fixed center, so you can never believe them.

— Patrick Ness

Politics is not worrying this country one-tenth as much as where to find a parking space.

— Will Rogers

Forgiveness is not generally something that you find as a coin to be used by politicians.

— Desmond Tutu

If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.

— Rachel Johnson

Tax is a big expense. And I wouldn't mind paying taxes a lot less if our politicians knew how to spend the…

— Donald Trump

Politicians are propaganda, the people with guns are the enforcers and the media is the enthusiastic lapdog who enables the entire behavior…

— Stefan Molyneux

Some major problems can be solved by our political process and our leaders. Others can be solved only when there is popular…

— James Stone

You will find that you cannot do without politicians. They are a necessary evil in this day and time. You may not…

— Huey Long

American Education has a long history of infatuation with fads and ill-considered ideas. The current obsession with making our schools work like…

— Diane Ravitch

[the downfall of our political system is the] buying and selling of politicians...bribery. In the private sector, you're arrested for it. In…

— Jesse Ventura

President Obama compared himself to Gandhi and Nelson Mandela in the struggle to bring about change. The comparison is flawed. They spent…

— Argus Hamilton

he very word "patient" implies passivity and powerlessness. Me-teacher-you-dumbbell, or me-doctor-you-patient, or me-politician-you-voter, or any other paternalistic or maternalistic stay-in-your-place tradition will…

— Andrew Saul

Ordinary people - churches, too - have a role to force politicians to respond. Governments are not impressed with theories, but governments…

— Allan Boesak

The demise of higher education as a public good is also evident in light of the election of a number of right-wing…

— Henry Giroux

Dear Bill (O'Reilly)...I am concerned that you have been losing touch with reality recently. Did you really say you are more powerful…

— Roger Ebert

I could never be a politician. But as uncomfortable as I would be doing so, I have no problem with Obama's long-planned…

— Barack Obama

In late modernity we grow more and more accustomed to politicians and public figures who are indebted to their appetites for their…

— Kenny Smith

Politicians - power itself - are abject because they merely embody the profound contempt people have for their own lives. One should…

— Jean Baudrillard

The interesting thing now for No Child Left Behind is that there are very few advocates for it; there is no constituency…

— Bob Schaffer

Gun laws are an attempt to nationalize the right of self-defense. Politicians perennially react to the police's abject failure to prevent crime…

— James Bovard

Most of the people in the upper income brackets are not rich and do not have wealth sheltered offshore. They are typically…

— Thomas Sowell

Politician plans for next election, where as a leader will think of future generations.

— Yssubramanyam

Why does the U.S. care which flag will be hoisted on a small piece of land thousands of miles away?

— Ron Paul

Some politician some years ago said that bad officials are elected by good voters who do not vote.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

While Lincoln thus became a lawyer, he did not cease to remain a politician.

— John George Nicolay

At home, you always have to be a politician; when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman.

— Harold MacMillan

We should resist the temptation to identify our religious convictions with the platform of a party or the platitudes of favored politicians.

— Ralph E. Reed, Jr

Is the Archbishop's blessing any more meaningful than the Politician's handshake? The come, they go, with bigger things than us on their…

— Edward Abbey

Everything is possible, from angels to demons to economists and politicians.

— Paulo Coelho

We're running a war by politicians and we're running a war by political correctness as per that question [with ISIS].

— Donald Trump

I suppose, as a politician, I should be content, for the Canada Pension Plan certainly put my name in Canada's history books,…

— Judy LaMarsh

If I were a Democrat, I'd be a career politician, so I'd enrich the Swamp while further bankrupting America.

— Lauren Boebert

I will not resolve a land dispute if civil groups or politicians are involved in the land disputes.

— Hun Sen

America is not doctrinaire. It's hard for an American politician to come up with an ideological position that is permanently unforgivable.

— P. J. O'Rourke

I think the show does better with newsmakers and politicians than it does with actors.

— Samantha Bee

Proximity to power has an unsurprising ability to mutate a politician's spinal cord into bright yellow jelly.

— Tariq Ali

Are Republican women politicians more 'feminine' than Democratic women politicians?

— Susan Estrich