Politician Quotes · Page 68

Women in politics are more honest and forthright. We are not in it for the ego gratification.

— Hanan Ashrawi

I want to be mayor, but I don’t need to be mayor. I’m not a career politician.

— Dick Murphy

When you define the audience, the performer becomes what the audience wants. Politicians do that all the time.

— Dan Graham

Our agenda, by necessity, is as complex and encompassing as the problems we face: beware of politicians promising simple solutions.

— Amitai Etzioni

I can't think of any male politician who magnetizes love and hate - mainly hate - the way [Margaret Thatcher] did.

— Hilary Mantel

I'm an elected politician. If you don't agree with me, vote for somebody else.

— Geert Wilders

To an intellectual who is adrift in politics, a theory is an aim; to a true politician his theory is a boundary

— Francis Parker Yockey

If you watch the news, you see politicians use human vulnerabilities to get in and earn people's trust.

— Morena Baccarin

I have to say that when I was young, when any politician was talking I wasn't even interested. Maybe they were saying…

— Thierry Henry

This is the difference between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton and Sen. Kaine. They are career public servants. Donald Trump is a…

— Mike Pence

You can drive yourself crazy trying to peer into a person's soul--or you can do the sensible thing: ask not what inner…

— Paul Begala

There aren’t many honest men or women in Washington anymore. Politicians get where they are by the sheer force of their egos,…

— Brad Thor

Freedom is living without government coercion. So when a politician talks about freedom for this group or that, ask yourself whether he…

— Ron Paul

Politics are, as it were, the market place and the price mechanism of all social demands - though there is no guarantee…

— Bernard Crick

I am a sportsman and not a politician. I am a sportsman and will always remain one. I am not going to…

— Sachin Tendulkar

The world today is ruled by harassed politicians absorbed in getting into office or turning out the other man so that not…

— Anonymous

American voters should understand that Congress will always find a way to spend every last dollar sent to Washington. Remember, politicians get…

— Ron Paul

If I could, I'd go city by city, county by county, town by town, and talk to people to explain to them…

— Jose Antonio Vargas

Political systems must love poverty-they produce so much of it. Poor people make easier targets for a demagogue. No Mao or even…

— P. J. O'Rourke

Washington flourished but the people did not share in its wealth. Politicians prospered, but the jobs left Americans want great schools for…

— Donald Trump

Politics in the United States consists of the struggle between those whose change has been arrested by success or failure, on one…

— Harold Rosenberg

There you see how absurd the reactions of the so-called markets are. For a long time, Italy was run by one of…

— Martin Schulz

I think people involved in politics make good actors. Acting and politics both involve fooling people. People like being fooled by actors.…

— Donna Brazile

The passion for playing chess is one of the most unaccountable in the world. It slaps the theory of natural selection in…

— H. G. Wells

If you ignore the murdering and the conniving, Francis Underwood is an effective politician.

— Kevin Spacey

The problem with a politician’s quote on Facebook is you don’t know whether or not they really said it.

— Abraham Lincoln

'Socialist' is the nastiest thing you can say about an American politician in some quarters.

— Jay McInerney

The path of those who preach love, and not hatred, is not easy. They often have to wear a crown of thorns.

— Nelson Mandela

I look forward to the day when the Westminster Parliament is just a council chamber in Europe

— Kenneth Clarke

Politicians need human misery. ... Government's a disease masquerading as its own cure.

— L. Neil Smith

Modern politics has become little more than shirking responsibility and blaming somebody else.

— Ross Perot

Peace requires the simple but powerful recognition that what we have in common as human beings is more important and crucial than…

— Sargent Shriver

The indignation of politicians is NOT a good measure of the gravity of any situation.

— Paul Harvey

It is always useful, you see, to subject the past life of reform politicians to rather inquisitive research.

— Isaac Asimov

I could never be a career politician, because I believe in telling the truth.

— Jesse Ventura

The best way to lose weight is to close your mouth - something very difficult for a politician. Or watch your food…

— Anonymous

If I see any politician or a priest or an imam or a rabbi in the Paradise, I will give up believing…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

If Scott Walker sees 100,000 teachers & firefighters as his enemies, maybe it's time we take a closer look at his friends.

— Elizabeth Warren

Any politician or campaigner trying to pull the wool over the eyes of the public won't get very far.

— Nicola Sturgeon

Five people in robes said they are bigger than the voters of California and Congress combined. And bigger than God. May He…

— Mike Huckabee