The career politicians in Washington had transformed a government "for the people" into a government for themselves and for special interests. — Tom Coburn Copy Share Image
As a politician, I spent a lot of time in Washington and New York, cities that are familiar to Europeans. — Michael Portillo Copy Share Image
The reason why Donald Trump does have a very strong base of popularity is he's an authentic person and not necessarily a… — Anthony Scaramucci Copy Share Image
The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
When politicians complain about the media, it strikes me as resembling footballers complaining about the umpire. — Tony Abbott Copy Share Image
I feel sorry for many politicians we expect them to be completely consistent and moralised when we're not. — Alexei Sayle Copy Share Image
A politician would do well to remember that he has to live with his conscience longer than he does with his constituents. — Melvin Laird Copy Share Image
I've never wanted to become a politician, an interior decorator, I've never wanted to speculate and make a load of money. I… — Terence Stamp Copy Share Image
I get amazed, I can't look at it but about 10 seconds, at these politicians dancing around this, dancing around this, I'm… — Jimmy Swaggart Copy Share Image
Advocacy groups and voters are not wrong to push candidates to declare their position clearly on policy issues. That is good citizenship.… — Mark McKinnon Copy Share Image
I think anybody who wants to be president has to be a politician, but I would like to find somebody who's coming… — Ellen DeGeneres Copy Share Image
It looks like the financial giants of the world have bungled as much as the diplomats and politicians. This would be a… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
With irrigation channels and rivers running dry and municipal water storage dams reaching record lows, California's politicians are getting desperate for solutions… — Marc Levine Copy Share Image
Engaging in a sycophantic way with any politician in the short term is tempting. It offers the lure of access and the… — Ben Domenech Copy Share Image
... if you're a woman, all they can think about your relationship with a politician is that you're either sleeping with him… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“Launching a nice little war to divert national attention was a gambit no less appealing to nineteenth-century politicians than it is to… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
As a result of the Citizens United Supreme Court decision, American democracy is being undermined by the ability of the Koch brothers… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
Too often, the perspectives on housing come from journalists, politicians and property experts, with a focus on the extreme ends of the… — David Lammy Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
What made Obama unique was that he was the ultimate charismatic politician -- the most unknown stranger ever to achieve the presidency… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
Major international interventions are doomed unless the US is directly or indirectly involved. But if American politicians, officials and servicemen are to… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Never Forget, even for an instant, that the one and only reason anybody has for taking your gun away is to make… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
However, if we leave the industrial machinery and their energy-distribution networks and leave them also all the people who have routine jobs… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
One of my rules is I generally don't talk to elected officials. It's kind of a firewall. I'll talk to staff if… — Markos Moulitsas Copy Share Image
No British politician has ever been more despised by the British people than Margaret Thatcher. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The duty of a politician for me is to be a representative: a politician is not an expert, experts are experts, hired… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
“A politician has an axe to grind With which he aims to chop off half your mind.” — Chris Naylor Copy Share Image
Manmohan Singh is the best politician India has seen. I can't say the same about him as an economist. — Arun Jaitley Copy Share Image
Why is it that when people have no capacity for private usefulness they should be so anxious to serve the public? — Sara Jeannette Duncan Copy Share Image
The political philosophy of black nationalism means that the black man should control the politics and the politicians in his own community;… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Ever since economists revealed how much universities contribute to economic growth, politicians have paid close attention to higher education. — Derek Bok Copy Share Image
“A politician's task was to bring reality and policy into the greatest possible account with the ideal and the principled.” — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
What can a sculptor do without the chisel and the hammer? And what can an impostor politician do without the ignorants and… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
The good and the bad news is that politicians rarely do what they say they are going to do when they campaign. — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
Being an ex-England manager, one that failed to qualify for the World Cup, is like being a dead politician. — Graham Taylor Copy Share Image
I must choose my words carefully in order to avoid any negative interpretation. Among politicians, this is a tactic known as lying. — Pat Paulsen Copy Share Image
A politician weakly and amiably in the right, is no match for a politician tenaciously and pugnaciously in the wrong. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Unless we insist that politics is imagination and mind, we will learn that imagination and mind are politics, and of a kind… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
A politicians willingness to listen to good advice rises in inverse proportion to how badly he thinks he is doing. — Patrick Caddell Copy Share Image
Whenever you hear a politician carry on about what a mess the schools are, be aware that you are looking at the… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
