Politician Quotes · Page 35

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

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

— Hilary Mantel

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

— Dan Graham

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

— Dick Murphy

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

— Amitai Etzioni

The test of political institutions is the condition of the country whose future they regulate.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Boris is a naturally energetic and optimistic politician. And when he goes on the campaign trail that just becomes so evident.

— James Cleverly

Hey you governmentb never try to seperate the people. Hey you politician, never try to seperate the people.

— Lucky Dube

Anybody who is an ambitious politician would never ever aspire to a Vice Presidency. And yet, people find themselves in that position,…

— Julia Louis-Dreyfus

We're not a socialist country, because the socialists believe in government ownership in the means of production, but the fascists believe that…

— Thomas Sowell

It has been calculated by the ablest politicians that no State, without being soon exhausted, can maintain above the hundredth part of…

— Edward Gibbon

You can't blame the President for the state of the country, it's always the poets' fault. You can't expect politicians to come…

— Ken Kesey

I am not a politician. I have often been approached in this regard, but I have always declined these sorts of offers.…

— Tariq Ramadan

I find it surprising, however, that many German politicians generally oppose referendums, but then when it's an EU matter, they immediately scream…

— Martin Schulz

A guy named Adolf Hitler won an election in 1932 ... and 50 million people died as a result ... what I…

— Bernie Sanders

“I say eek to Zeke Ekez, the imaginary palindrome politician of my dreams. He looks like me, talks like me, and thinks…

— Jarod Kintz

Indira Gandhi had been this very powerful, dominating, ambiguous mother figure. Ambiguous because she was tyrannical, she had imposed...she had suspended Indian…

— Aravind Adiga

This is me putting it simply; the politicians are one demographic and they see that Arizona is changing. I feel like the…

— Matt de la Pena

When one is undone—sprawled across the cold tile of a public bathroom in a pool of one’s own vomit, or shivering in…

— Aisha Tyler

Politicians are enormously smart and rational. They don't have the same interests as businessmen ... But a man rises to the top…

— George Friedman

We assume that politicians are without honor. We read their statements trying to crack the code. The scandals of their politics: not…

— Adrienne Rich

You are talking to a leftist. I believe in the redistribution of wealth and power in the world. I believe in universal…

— Abbie Hoffman

No man with a genius for legislation has appeared in America. They are rare in the history of the world. There are…

— Henry David Thoreau

I have simplified my politics into an utter detestation of all existing governments; and, as it is the shortest and most agreeable…

— Lord Byron

There is no doubt that we need to manage migration better.Migrants are always getting the blame for politicians.

— Sadiq Khan

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

— Hanan Ashrawi

I have no belief in the system. So Sonny is perfectly at home (in Washington D.C.). Politicians are one step down below…

— Cher

Politicians will pander to special-interest groups eager to gain at the public expense.

— Donald J. Boudreaux

Office tends to confer a dreadful plausibility on even the most negligible of those who hold it.

— Mark Lawson

I don't like my politicians entertaining me and I don't like my entertainers politicianing me.

— Craig Ferguson

Today, a politician does not just need public support to win elections; he needs it to govern.

— Dick Morris

Public opinion is the pennant on a nation's mast which shows the politician and the editor how to trim the sails.

— Austin O'Malley

Politicians never accuse you of 'greed' for wanting other people's money - only for wanting to keep your own money.

— Joseph Sobran

Look, I like my music, and I don't have a conventional background for a politician, but I'm pretty conventional in many senses.

— Chuka Umunna

Confronted with economic problems, politicians always blame the private sector first ... [even] blaming the problem on the solution.

— Richard L. Gordon

I can remember when a good politician had to be 75 percent ability and 25 percent actor, but I can well see…

— Harry S. Truman

The only politician ever to have entered parliament with honourable intentions, was Guy Fawkes.

— Terry Deary

Politicians are like the bones of a horse's foreshoulder-not a straight one in it.

— Wendell Phillips

A politician without money for advertising is out of luck. They are not taken seriously.

— Robert Kane Pappas

When a politician uses the word 'folks,' we should brace ourselves for the deceit, or worse, that is coming.

— Noam Chomsky