Politician Quotes · Page 48

I am a politician but I am also an actress and you do need glamour in politics.

— Jaya Prada

We're not disinterested in politics. It's just that politicians are disinteresting.

— John Lennon

Political Economy means that everybody except politicians must be economical.

— Anonymous

There are some honorable politicians; and God bless them, there aren't many of them - but they're narcissistic. They need people to…

— Ann Coulter

I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.

— Winston Churchill

We have no eternal allies, and we have not perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal and perpetual, and those interests it is…

— Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston

After establishing myself as politician I will take decision about my future in film industry.

— Nagma

I'm a politician, and as a politician I have the prerogative to lie whenever I want.

— Charlie Peacock

We must remind our politicians that we expect them to speak honestly and to be concerned about real issues, and not simply…

— Davis McCaughey

“A politician who brings personal integrity into leadership helps us reclaim the popular trust that distinguishes true democracy from its cheap imitations.”

— Parker J. Palmer

Prime Minister, I see you've already mastered the essential craft of the European politician, namely, the ability to say one thing in…

— Daniel Hannan

As minister of finance, Mr. Flaherty served his country with dedication and conviction, even as he faced mounting health challenges. As both…

— Thomas Mulcair

Don't listen to me. I'm not a politician. I know nothing about politics. But people are cheering when something very bad happens…

— Sacha Baron Cohen

'Reform' is a word you always aughta' watch out for. 'Reform' is a change that you're supposed to like. And watch it…

— Noam Chomsky

Why is patriotism thought to be blind loyalty to the government and the politicians who run it, rather than loyalty to the…

— Ron Paul

A politician taking campaign money from gamblers in Nevada is like one taking campaign money from the auto people in Michigan. Gambling…

— Paul Laxalt

You see sort of the difference in the way that Marco Rubio was talking in that kind of way. That kind of…

— Donald Trump

There is a small minority of well-educated people with relatively sensible views on economics, and an extremely tiny minority of economists with…

— Bryan Caplan

Politics is the business of getting power and privilege without possessing merit. A politician is anyone who asks individuals to surrender part…

— P. J. O'Rourke

For God to be kept out of the classroom or out of America's public debate by nervous school administrators or overcautious politicians…

— Nancy Gibbs

In my opinion, those politicians are making decisions based on calculations related to polling numbers and strategic political agendas. But if they…

— Yasmine Elmasri

The best that can be said for those like Senators Nelson and Landrieu is that they held out until Obama and Reid…

— Burt Prelutsky

Politicians like to talk about the income tax when they talk about overtaxing the rich, but the income tax is just one…

— David Cay Johnston

We're in a strange state in our world where we sort of have that belief - and I have it too -…

— George Clooney

How long do politicians have to keep on promising heaven and delivering hell before people catch on and stop getting swept away…

— Thomas Sowell

We are a nation of politicians, concerned about the outmost defenses only of freedom. It is our children's children who may perchance…

— Henry David Thoreau

In Mexico an air conditioner is called a politician because it makes a lot of noise but doesn't work very well.

— Len Deighton

I may not be a politician, but I will fight to the end of my life for what I believe in.

— Bidzina Ivanishvili

You slam a politician, you make out he's the devil, with horns and hoofs. But his wife loves him, and so did…

— Pamela Hansford Johnson

Joe Lieberman is my least favorite politician of all time, excluding President Franklin Pierce (he just annoys me - not sure why).

— Jack Schlossberg

Most political leaders acquire their position by causing large numbers of people to believe that these leaders are actuated by altruistic desires

— Bertrand Russell

His sentences didn't seem to have any verbs, which was par for a politician. All nouns, no action.

— Jennifer Crusie

In those days, the late 1970s, one of the leading politicians was a soon-to-be uncle by marriage of Arnold Schwarzenegger, named Ted…

— Michael Kinsley

I have proudly spent several periods in government, but I'm not a career politician. I come from a family of 'citizen soldiers.'

— Jim Webb

In the end, I think part of my problem was that I was a better legislator than I was a politician.

— Dan Maffei

The civilized world needs to think about a decision when single politicians are not allowed to stay in power.

— Vladimir Zhirinovsky

Politicians are always interested in people. Not that this is always a virtue. Fleas are interested in dogs.

— P. J. O'Rourke

President Reagan is a rhetorical roundheels, as befits a politician seeking empathy with his audience.

— William Safire

I would have been a disaster as a career politician. I would never have toed a party line.

— Hilary Mantel

Politicians have immense power to do harm to the economy. But they have very little power to do good.

— Walter E. Williams