Politician Quotes · Page 43

(and Catholics give out forgiveness at about the same rate as politicians give out promises and whores give out)

— Zadie Smith

The whole reason we organize grassroots is, we think any politician that gets elected needs to be held accountable 365 days a year.

— Chris Matthews

Rude interviewers are ten a penny, and politicians have long since learned how to cope.

— Andrew Marr

Despite that sort of reputation that Canada has of being a boring place, we really have produced really interesting politicians.

— Terry Mosher

It's important to realize that whenever you give power to politicians or bureaucrats, it will be used for what they want, not…

— Harry Browne

A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.

— Adlai E. Stevenson

I'm a member of the Academy, but I don't know who all the other Academy members are. It's not like a politician…

— Albert Brooks

Over and over, we hear politicians say they can't spend our tax dollars on environmental protection when the economy is so fragile.

— David Suzuki

I think crime is a huge issue for people. If you were living in the poorest state, and you've got drug dealers…

— Tony Blair

November is Hip-Hop History Month, where we give celebration to what hip hop has done to bring together people of the world,…

— Afrika Bambaataa

As a politician who cherishes religious conviction in his personal sphere, but regards politics as a domain belonging outside religion, I believe…

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

We have federal regulations and state laws that prohibit hunting ducks with more than three rounds. And yet it's legal to hunt…

— Dianne Feinstein

There have been tons of politicians who were slow to accept equal rights when it meant changes in the established social order.…

— Gail Collins

What's four years in our long American history? Remember when I asked that wheelchair-bound politician to "stand up." It turns me off…

— Joe Biden

The President is no more than a well-meaning baboon. I went to the White House directly after tea, where I found "The…

— George B. McClellan

In particular, I wanted to help build a team behind Boris Johnson so that a politician who argued for leaving the European…

— Michael Gove

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

— George Friedman

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

There are two ideas of government. There are those who believe that, if you will only legislate to make the well-to-do prosperous,…

— William Jennings Bryan

What I'm very upset about is the attempt to dictate to museums what they show, and the statements made by politicians in…

— Hans Haacke

Indians mock their corrupt politicians relentlessly, but they regard their honest politicians with silent suspicion. The first thing they do when they…

— Aravind Adiga

Voting, the be all and end all of modern democratic politicians, has become a farce, if indeed it was ever anything else.…

— Robert Higgs

The one thing our Founding Fathers could not foresee - they were farmers, professional men, businessmen giving of their time and effort…

— Ronald Reagan

I have never seen an adequate description anywhere of the amazement, the uncomprehending horror of the bulk of the American people which…

— Rebecca Harding Davis

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

— Michael Monroe

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

— H. L. Mencken

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

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

— Herbert Hoover

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 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

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

— Munia Khan

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

Injustice drives me crazy! It really upsets me when I see politicians lying.

— Trevor Paglen

Nothing corrupts a politician quite as much as friendship. Good politicians don't bribe; they make us like them.

— Matthew Parris

I have made it clear that future candidates need to be completely understanding that they will be expected to vote pro-choice on…

— Justin Trudeau

In Massachusetts they [Democratic politicians] steal, in California they feud, and in New York they lie.

— Robert Kennedy