Politician Quotes · Page 47

The only people you and I are likely to know in common are people in the news - politicians, journalists and celebrities.

— Helen Fisher

Somehow politicians have become convinced that negative campaigning pays off in elections.

— George McGovern

Politicians use statistics in the same way that a drunk uses lamp-postsfor support rather than illumination.

— Andrew Lang

[Barack] Obama doesn't disappoint me, because all during the campaign he said, I'm a pragmatic, middle-of-the-road, compromising politician.

— Bill Ayers

American politician doesWe're going to bring back God and the Bible and drive the gods of secular humanism right out of the…

— Pat Buchanan

I shake hands very gladly politically. I don't think you could be a politician if you didn't shake hands.

— Donald Trump

In middle life politics are not a mental acquisition; they are a temperament.

— Frank Moore Colby

Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.

— Mark B. Cohen

The politicians think that I have not included enough of them; the nonpoliticians think that I have gone back to the old…

— Corazon Aquino

The Tea Party was really a two-front war - one against Obama, the other against any Republican politician who reeked of insiderdom…

— Steve Kornacki

The very first time a politician puts you in his target is sometimes a disappointment, because perhaps you thought you were friends…

— Walter Cronkite

It's important for people not to hold a high opinion of politicians, and one of the strengths of the British is that…

— Richard Ingrams

Bill Clinton is like a lot of white politicians. They eat soul food, they party with black women, they play the saxophone,…

— Sister Souljah

Workers who come to the U.S. see their wages and their standard of living boosted sharply simply by crossing the border. That's…

— James Surowiecki

The practical politician, as every connoisseur of ochlocracy knows, is not a man who seeks to inoculate the innumerable caravan of voters…

— Henry Louis Mencken

If you put your politicians up for sale, as the US does (alone in this among industrialized democracies), then someone will buy…

— Juan Cole

If you've worked together with somebody very well, leave-taking is very difficult. But we are all politicians. We all know that democracy…

— Angela Merkel

There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger, more resistant, more passionate than "politicians"…

— Michel Foucault

Anyone who has undergone home repair lately knows that your everyday artisan uses language so loosely and makes false promises so glibly…

— Mary McGrory

Trump's not showing up and trying to politely insert himself in political system and the way politicians do things. He's not trying…

— Rush Limbaugh

I don't think any administration, when they come in, thinks that their job is to tell the scientists what the science looks…

— Gina McCarthy

Many politicians and pundits claim that the credit crunch and high mortgage foreclosure rate is an example of market failure and want…

— Walter E. Williams

Hate crimes have increased since the election of Donald Trump. So I'm not surprised. I'm hopeful, very vigilant. We're seeing the same…

— Christian Picciolini

I think people do look to writers to tell the truth in a way that nobody else quite will, not politicians or…

— John Updike

I never make moral judgments; I'm not qualified to do so. I am not a censor, a priest, or a politician.

— Federico Fellini

I could not be leading a religious life unless I identified myself with the whole of mankind, and that I could not…

— Mahatma Gandhi

“When I’m asleep I’m a politician, and when I’m awake I’m a criminal. Throughout the day and night, my mentality never changes.”

— Jarod Kintz

In politics as on a sickbed men toss from side to side in hope of lying more comfortably.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The politician is the creature of the public sentiment -- never goes ahead of it because he depends on it . . .

— Lucy Stone

It is weird. A lot of people try to ask me political questions. Im not a politician.

— Barkhad Abdi

Since the 1930s the technique of buying votes with the voters' own money has been expanded to an extent undreamed of by…

— Milton Friedman

These days many politicians are demanding change. Just like homeless people.

— George Carlin

Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There is no man more complete than the one who travelled a lot, who changed the shape of his thoughts and his…

— Alphonse de Lamartine

You can't change Washington from the inside, you can only change it from the outside.

— Barack Obama

Other top-level politicians do not express their global warming doubts because a whip of political correctness strangles their voice.

— Vaclav Klaus

A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman.

— David Lloyd George

Dependency is the highest political good - at least for politicians. Since the 1930s, politicians have striven to leave no vote unbought.

— James Bovard

I learned long ago to never be disappointed by people. Especially politicians.

— Chuck Pfarrer

A politician can go out and speak for him or herself, but actually for the family it's difficult - although it does…

— Hilary Benn