Politician Quotes · Page 31

Unfortunately politicians are not very sound people or they wouldn't be politicians.

— Jim Rogers

Politicians, ugly buildings, and whores all get respectable if they last long enough.

— Robert Towne

Democracy cannot consist solely of elections that are nearly always fictitious and managed by rich landowners and professional politicians.

— Che Guevara

My function in life is not to be a politician in Parliament: it is to get something done.

— Bernadette Devlin

Modern candidates seem to have to live with political matters all the time. In my father's time, a politician's home was still…

— Rose Kennedy

The other feature is a gymnasium named after another dead politician who was gifted with fast and extremely sure hands.

— Jimmy Breslin

Politicians are just a bunch of local bandits, sent by their local voters to raid the public treasury.

— Will Rogers

[On Austen Chamberlain:] He is more loyal to his friends than to his convictions.

— Margot Asquith

Any politician who starts shouting election-year demagoguery about the rich and the poor should be asked, "What about the other 90 percent…

— Thomas Sowell

A politician or political thinker who calls himself a political realist is usually boasting that he sees politics, so to speak, in…

— Mary McCarthy

A politician thinks of the next election; a statement of the next generation. A politician looks for the success of his party;…

— James Freeman Clarke

The only politician in my family was my grandfather's grandfather, who was the mayor of Winnipeg from Jan. 1, 1917, until Jan.…

— Jake Tapper

Very important thing to keep in mind, that when justice comes and when injustices are remedied, they’re not remedied by the initiative…

— Howard Zinn

The whole concept of higher education is negated unless the sole criterion used to determine if students qualify is the grades they…

— Ray Bradbury

If politicians stopped meddling with things they don't understand, there would be a more drastic reduction in the size of government than…

— Thomas Sowell

What the world needs more than anything are Bodhisattvas of peace, lawyers, politicians, teachers working tirelessly for the enlightenment of themselves and…

— Sogyal Rinpoche

And if we now cast our eyes over the nations of the earth, we shall find that, instead of possessing the pure…

— Samuel Adams

I did an embed in Afghanistan on the Pakistan border in 2008. One of the things you realize when you're talking to…

— Michael Hastings

When things get tough, this is what you should do: Make good art. I'm serious. Husband runs off with a politician --…

— Neil Gaiman

Hiding behind such sacred terms as human rights and distributive justice, politicians and intellectuals alike have perpetrated a gargantuan ruse on humankind:…

— Gonzalo Fernandez de la Mora

What made Obama unique was that he was the ultimate charismatic politician -- the most unknown stranger ever to achieve the presidency…

— Charles Krauthammer

Too often, the perspectives on housing come from journalists, politicians and property experts, with a focus on the extreme ends of the…

— David Lammy

Primarily affecting low-information voters and members of the mainstream media, Obama Worship Syndrome attributes impossible capabilities to Obama's political opponents, finds excuses…

— Ben Shapiro

We need the political will, and that often comes from the will of the people. So if celebrities or personalities can help…

— Angelina Jolie

You don't help a depressed economy by giving control of its resources to politicians.

— Robert P. Murphy

“The captain of a ship can run a great ship, but he can't do anything about the tides.”

— Matthew Norman 2

Elections in L.A. are so different. Here you've got politicians with phony smiles making false promises to voters with fake boobs and…

— Jay Leno

The interesting thing about coaching is that you have to trouble the comfortable, and comfort the troubled

— Ric Charlesworth

I was one of those people who was always rather frightened of women politicians.

— William Whitelaw, 1st Viscount Whitelaw

A consensus politician is someone who does something that he doesn't believe is right because it keeps people quiet when he does…

— John Major

In Louisiana, we don't bet on football games, we bet on whether a politician is going to be indicted or not.

— Mark Duffy

The prospects of green economic opportunity is going to be determined to a great extent by politicians arriving at some sort of…

— Van Jones

All the media and the politicians ever talk about is things that separate us, things that make us different from one another

— George Carlin

Politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don't.

— George Carlin

The politician's prayer is: May my words be ever soft and low, for I may have to eat them.

— Norman Lamont

[I support] term limits for career politicians and the death penalty for career politicians.

— Bill Frist

When your back is against the wall, there is only one thing to do, and that is turn around and fight.

— John Major

A politician thinks about the next elections - the statesman thinks about the next generations.

— James Freeman

Unless we take action on climate change, future generations will be roasted, toasted, fried and grilled.

— Christine Lagarde

“Hardly anybody tells the truth these days. For the truth I have to go to Washington DC, and whatever a politician says,…

— Jarod Kintz