Politician Quotes · Page 67

Compassion is good but politicians have turned compassion into the welfare state.

— Thomas Sowell

I will deal with the politicians in a political way and with the nonpoliticians in a nonpolitical way.

— Muqtada al Sadr

The politicians don't just want your money. They want your soul. They want you to be worn down by taxes until you…

— James Dale Davidson

It is in struggle and service with our brothers and sisters, individually and collectively, that we find the meaning of life.

— Jesse Jackson

The political is replacing the metaphysical as the characteristic mode of grasping reality.

— Harvey Cox

Politicians are like the bones of a horse's foreshoulder-not a straight one in it.

— Wendell Phillips

When a politician uses the word 'folks,' we should brace ourselves for the deceit, or worse, that is coming.

— Noam Chomsky

A politician without money for advertising is out of luck. They are not taken seriously.

— Robert Kane Pappas

As a black member of parliament and minister for nearly a decade, I was determined not to be defined by my race.…

— Sam Gyimah

Health care's a great example. We spend billions of dollars a year in foreign aid helping people in countries where the money…

— Toby Keith

The Second Amendment is not about duck hunting, and I know I'm not going to make very many friends saying this, but…

— Suzanna Hupp

Americanism not globalism will be our credo as long as we are led by politicians who will not put America first, then…

— Donald Trump

Professional politicians like to talk about the value of experience in government. Nuts! The only experience you gain in politics is how…

— Ronald Reagan

I would just like to say something, ladies and gentlemen. Something that I think is very important. It is that, you, we…

— Clint Eastwood

Talking points are a core set of messages an executive or politician utilizes in communicating with stakeholders. It's a term of art…

— Richard Edelman

I end up liking politicians, both left and right, who talk about political matters as if they are addressing a bunch of…

— Rachel Maddow

A politician must often talk and act before he has thought and read. He may be very ill informed respecting a question:…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

Dont teach my boy poetry, an English mother recently wrote the Provost of Harrow. Dont teach my boy poetry; he is going…

— John F. Kennedy

Often vastly more important, international agreements are not routinely published in draft form or publicly debated, and civil society organizations and ordinary…

— Thomas Pogge

Our accent will be upon youth: we need new ideas, new methods, new approaches. We will call upon young students of political…

— Malcolm X

Partisanship should be kept out of the pulpit... The blindest of partisans are preachers. All politicians expect and find more candor, fairness,…

— Rutherford B. Hayes

There will be a major border tax on these companies that are leaving and getting away with murder. And if our politicians…

— Donald Trump

I think we give Jimmy Carter too much credit to think he knew what was going to happen when he used the…

— Lawrence Wright

Mein Kampf, this terrible book of Adolph Hitler is outlawed. I made a point in the Dutch parliament that I say to…

— Geert Wilders

Bill Bradley is a serious politician and if Al Gore stumbles seriously, then Bradley is there to take advantage of that.

— Tom Mann

I can remember when a good politician had to be 75 percent ability and 25 percent actor, but I can well see…

— Harry S. Truman

The only politician ever to have entered parliament with honourable intentions, was Guy Fawkes.

— Terry Deary

Public opinion is the pennant on a nation's mast which shows the politician and the editor how to trim the sails.

— Austin O'Malley

Confronted with economic problems, politicians always blame the private sector first ... [even] blaming the problem on the solution.

— Richard L. Gordon

Look, I like my music, and I don't have a conventional background for a politician, but I'm pretty conventional in many senses.

— Chuka Umunna

Politicians never accuse you of 'greed' for wanting other people's money - only for wanting to keep your own money.

— Joseph Sobran

Office tends to confer a dreadful plausibility on even the most negligible of those who hold it.

— Mark Lawson

I don't like my politicians entertaining me and I don't like my entertainers politicianing me.

— Craig Ferguson

Today, a politician does not just need public support to win elections; he needs it to govern.

— Dick Morris

I have no belief in the system. So Sonny is perfectly at home (in Washington D.C.). Politicians are one step down below…

— Cher

Politicians will pander to special-interest groups eager to gain at the public expense.

— Donald J. Boudreaux

The test of political institutions is the condition of the country whose future they regulate.

— Benjamin Disraeli

There is no doubt that we need to manage migration better.Migrants are always getting the blame for politicians.

— Sadiq Khan

Hey you governmentb never try to seperate the people. Hey you politician, never try to seperate the people.

— Lucky Dube

Boris is a naturally energetic and optimistic politician. And when he goes on the campaign trail that just becomes so evident.

— James Cleverly