A politician is someone who promises a bridge even when there's no water — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
The politician has no more use for pride than Falstaff had for honour. — Bernard Crick Copy Share Image
A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A candidate for office can have no greater advantage than muddled syntax; no greater liability than a command of language. — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
“the bland politician’s smile of someone who knows that the bodies in the car trunk are, indeed, dead.” — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I believe when hard-working citizens have earned their pension, it's wrong for Washington bureaucrats and politicians to take their pensions away. — Josh Mandel Copy Share Image
As the Internet breaks down the last justifications for a professional class of politicians, it also builds up the tools for replacing… — Aaron Swartz Copy Share Image
I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve. — Carl Lewis Copy Share Image
I don't know a politician who enjoys fundraising. The system is such that the American people have lost faith. — John McCain Copy Share Image
I’ve always been interested in leaders and rule breakers and artists and politicians. — Jared Leto Copy Share Image
A bad Tweet can cause scandal, shame, even possibly end a politician's career. — Meghan McCain Copy Share Image
If I had my way books would not be written in English but in an exceedingly difficult secret language… This plan would… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
I think the journey for a politician goes from wanting to please all the people all the time, to a political leader… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
In two thousand years all our generals and politicians may be forgotten, but Einstein and Madame Curie and Bernard Shaw and Stravinsky… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
Most change in America doesn't come from, politicians. It comes from people inventing things and creating. The telephone, the telegraph, the computer,… — David Boaz Copy Share Image
Everyone should get dirt on his hands each day. Doctors, intellectuals. Politicians, most of all. How can we presume to uplift the… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Nowadays, people in the entertainment industry can have a louder voice than politicians, and I think its important that they use that… — Serinda Swan Copy Share Image
To say that Jimmy Carter does not understand politics or is not a good politician denies the phenomenon by which he got… — Hamilton Jordan Copy Share Image
The entitlement mentality so carefully cultivated by liberal academics, politicians, clergymen, and journalists continues to corrode the self-sufficiency that once defined the… — Mona Charen Copy Share Image
In the short walk between his aeroplane and reaching the outside world at Heathrow, Michael Bywater encountered no fewer than 93 separate… — Alexander Waugh Copy Share Image
I think Dr. Ben Carson is a unique political personality. He's what we call a conviction politician. He actually believes in what… — Daniel Henninger Copy Share Image
Companies watch what consumers are doing like a hawk. Just as one letter to a politician can signal an insipient problem, for… — John Elkington Copy Share Image
The Captains of Industry have always counseled the rest of us "to be realistic." Let us, therefore, be realistic. Is it realistic… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
If you give up on the idea that your voice can make a difference, then other voices will fill the void: lobbyists… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I did not share the enthusiasm of certain politicians for the National Front leader, it was because I had noticed, in the… — Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Copy Share Image
Lincoln is such an iconic figure in American history. He seems to reflect so many elements of American culture that we consider… — Eric Foner Copy Share Image
The Assault Weapons Ban deals with a fictional distinction. You have guns that are exactly the same guns as are banned, in… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image