Politician Quotes · Page 27

It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs.

— Vaclav Havel

Well, I'm not that popular with the politicians, I have to say.

— Jose Padilha

Alarm bells ring when a politician stands haughty upon his honour.

— Howard Jacobson

A statesman is a successful politician who is dead.

— Anonymous

Politics in a democracy is, at the end, an educational process.

— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr

All politicians are bores and liars and fakes. I talk to people.

— Martha Gellhorn

Politicians promise you heaven before election and give you hell after

— Emma Goldman

Politicians are not born; they are excreted.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The Democrats like to claim that they are the party of women - in reality, though, no politician has done more for…

— Lara Trump

Scholars who become politicians are usually assigned the comic role of having to be the good conscience of state policy.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

To be serious, if we were only interested in earning big money then a politician would have to go and work in…

— Angela Merkel

Experience to a politician is like experience to a prostitute - not much to recommend them.

— Charley Reese

Public service is a part of who I am, having grown up in a family of politicians.

— Harold Ford, Jr

A politician's speech can't do what a movie or a cultural event like a song or piece of music can.

— Angus Macfadyen

Florence for me is not simply a city. Florence is a sentiment. And I think it's impossible to be a politician without…

— Matteo Renzi

I firmly believe you never should spend your time being the former anything.

— Condoleezza Rice

The first Rudiments of Morality, broach'd by skilful Politicians, to render Men useful to each other as well as tractable, were chiefly…

— Bernard de Mandeville

Politics deserves much praise. Politics is a preoccupation of free men, and its existence is a test of freedom. The praise of…

— Bernard Crick

Life itself has so much politics, why should I make it my profession? I'm just a politician's son, not a politician myself.…

— Riteish Deshmukh

I don't like trying to influence politicians, who are themselves representative of huge numbers of people. As an educator, I'd rather enlighten…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

The facts [on immigration system ] aren't known because the media won't report on them. The politicians won't talk about them and…

— Donald Trump

Donald Trump is the most outspoken, transparent, here's what I want to do, here's what I think we should do. There's no…

— Rush Limbaugh

There is no reason to believe that bureaucrats and politicians, no matter how well meaning, are better at solving problems than the…

— Elinor Ostrom

The politicians, who once stated that war was too complex to be left to the generals, now act as though peace were…

— Pierre Trudeau

“Mandela alikuwa hodari ndiyo maana akapelekwa jela. Alikuwa mvumilivu ndiyo maana akakaa jela kwa miaka ishirini na saba. Alivyotoka akawa kiongozi bora…

— Enock Maregesi

Young people today seem to be coming around to the idea it really doesn’t matter which politician or political party you vote…

— James Morcan

Any politico who's afraid of his constituents being armed, should be. Leaders of the anti-gun movement (for the most part, politicians who…

— L. Neil Smith

I opposed annexing in areas around our city borders, because I knew that if neighborhoods wanted to be a part of the…

— Sarah Palin

We know they have nothing to do with Islam because our politicians keep telling us that, and they are all Islamic scholars.…

— Pat Condell

In really hard times the rules of the game are altered. The inchoate mass begins to stir. It becomes potent, and when…

— Walter Lippmann

Democracy is not freedom. Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to eat for lunch. Freedom comes from the…

— James Bovard

I've always seen my campaigns against corruption as political work of a purer form than what opposition leaders usually do. All they…

— Alexei Navalny

The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I would be honest.

— Rodney Dangerfield

'Happiness is a Small Politician' - my mantra then and forever more.

— Ralph Steadman

[Donald Trump] hedging his bets because he's used to buying politicians.

— Marco Rubio

Politics is too important to be left to politicians.

— Warren Rudman

Kuan Yew, I can never trust you as a politician.

— Tunku Abdul Rahman

Politicians have responsibility to act if the public opinion changes.

— David Titley

I am not a politician... I only suffer the consequences.

— Peter Tosh

I have always liked the Kennedys as politicians. They had such great hair.

— Pamela Anderson