Politician Quotes · Page 70

I think politicians get hamstrung by the nature of politics when the private sector can really do great things.

— Henry Rollins

I think politicians sometimes badly underestimate the true feelings that Americans have for the land.

— Mo Udall

Every one must be familiar with the often expressed opinion, that, as a practical politician, Mr. Mill's career was essentially a failure.

— Millicent Fawcett

I suppose it's part of being a good politician to be able to spot the most important men in any group without…

— Leslie Ford

I've been both a journalist and a politician, and I can tell you it is more fun to ask the questions than…

— Michael Ignatieff

I consider that women who are authors, lawyers, and politicians are monsters.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

I rarely meet a politician that I don't like personally. They are generally well endowed with charm. Therein lies the danger.

— P. J. O'Rourke

“Politics is clueless; I can claim -"I am a politician" only because I am not.”

— Munia Khan

It would probably be very sensible to be in love with someone who was not in the arts and who wasn't so…

— Anjelica Huston

All the politics in the world are nothing else but a kind of analysis of the quantity of probability in casual events,…

— John Arbuthnot

All my life I've dealt with politicians. I know politicians better than anybody. And honestly, if you can't deal with a politician,…

— Donald Trump

It's amazing to be nominated for two Brits, and I'm in great company. I'm not a politician out blagging votes, but if…

— Tom Walker

The public is tired of politicians professing certain beliefs and not acting on those beliefs. They want elected officials who have the…

— Colonel Tom Parker

Generally speaking, politicians are an odd bunch. They seem to have very thick skins and genuinely don't care what people think. And…

— Paul Merton

I'd rather be robbed by an armed highway man than the politicians and their bankers. A highway man gets away from you…

— Raymond C. Hoiles

In two thousand years all our generals and politicians may be forgotten, but Einstein and Madame Curie and Bernard Shaw and Stravinsky…

— Anthony Burgess

Three strikes' laws make no sense as policy. They are more about the politicians responding to the people's desire to see their…

— Glenn Loury

I am 60, and I am as much an internationalist as when I was younger, when I was a Marxist-Leninist. Internationalism is…

— Bernard-Henri Levy

I think people are more in contact now with the consequences of war than they've been for a very long time. And…

— Michael Morpurgo

I thought Donald Trump approach on Brexit was a fascinating window into how he thinks. His basic point was that [David] Cameron…

— Christopher Michael Cillizza

The main thing that every political campaign in the United States demonstrates is that the politicians of all parties, despite their superficial…

— H. L. Mencken

I was doing an interview with Charlie Rose and he said, "What do you think about Margaret Thatcher?" - and I had…

— Gregory Doran

All politicians are going to mask to some degree in order to present themselves in away they think will get them votes.…

— Shelby Steele

With the Republican Party's presidential front-runner proposing that all Muslims should be banned from entering the United States, that perhaps there ought…

— Rachel Maddow

We don't want our politicians bending to the whims of whichever corporation has the money to pay them off.

— Michael Monroe

Being a politician is a poor profession. Being a public servant is a noble one.

— Herbert Hoover

The politicians are no prizes, but the people are even worse, they're so ill-informed. I never understand the pushback when I say…

— Bill Maher

No politician is ever benefited by saving money; it is spending it that makes him.

— H. L. Mencken

Someone once noted that a 'gaffe' in Washington is when a politician accidentally tells the truth.

— Jonah Goldberg

I have no baggage in politics. I've never been a politician. I don't owe anybody anything.

— Kevin O'Leary

I'd never compromise my position as a journalist by having a friendly relationship with a politician.

— Rebekah Brooks

The antagonism between the poet and the politician has generally been evident in all cultures.

— Salvatore Quasimodo

A politician is the devil's quilted anvil; He fashions all sins on him, and the blows are never heard.

— John Webster

Politicians who wear little tennis socks with the balls at the back should not be taken seriously.

— Mo Rocca

I was always a politician from the day the civil rights people chose me as their protest singer.

— Nina Simone

Herman Brown was a businessman who wanted value for money spent. His relationships with politicians were measured by that criterion.

— Robert Caro

It doesn't matter what I say as long as I sound different from other politicians.

— Jerry Brown

The biggest danger for a politician is to shake hands with a man who is physically stronger, has been drinking, and is…

— William Proxmire

I never fear famous politicians, never fear the big parties, I only fear the people do not understand.

— Khem Veasna

The short memories of the American voters is what keeps our politicians in office.

— Will Rogers