Politician Quotes · Page 58

I get always a little uptight when I hear politicians say how exceptional America is.

— John F. Kerry

There's something inherently comic about the fact that politicians make things worse by worrying too much about something.

— Armando Iannucci

I've always liked politicians and lawyers. They keep the PR professional's status at least two from the bottom of the ethical food…

— Shel Israel

The more that I know of politics, the more it makes me realize that being a politician is largely useless.

— Sophia Bush

Investing in women is smart economics, and investing in girls, catching them upstream, is even smarter economics.

— Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers.

— Walter Lippmann

Well what a turn-up. From professional footballer to television presenter to green politician. Whatever next?

— David Icke

“It is possible to be a retard and a politician. In fact, it’s almost a prerequisite.”

— Jarod Kintz

AIDS is no longer a death sentence for those who can get the medicines. Now it's up to the politicians to create…

— Anonymous

Democracy needs support and the best support for democracy comes from other democracies. Democratic nations should come together in an association designed…

— Benazir Bhutto

I really don't like women who try to be men. All these politicians, I think they're horrendous. We could have a brilliant…

— Vivienne Westwood

As long as judges tinker with the Constitution to 'do what the people want,' instead of what the document actually commands, politicians…

— Antonin Scalia

The African-American community has been let down by our politicians. They talk good around election time, and after the election, they say,…

— Donald Trump

The biggest myth about labor unions is that unions are for the workers. Unions are for unions, just as corporations are for…

— Thomas Sowell

A lot of politicians now, here's what they're worried about. If you're a Democrat you're worried about your base on the left,…

— John Kasich

I see the God complex around me all the time in my fellow economists. I see it in our business leaders. I…

— Tim Harford

We know they have nothing to do with Islam because our politicians keep telling us that, and they are all Islamic scholars.…

— Pat Condell

I opposed annexing in areas around our city borders, because I knew that if neighborhoods wanted to be a part of the…

— Sarah Palin

Whether lawyer, politician or executive, the American who knows what's good for his career seeks an institutional rather than an individual identity.…

— Lewis H. Lapham

We've got characters in the UK like Boris Johnson, who's kind of like a proto Trump in many ways even down to…

— Charlie Brooker

[On women getting the vote:] The newspapers, poor dears, looked of course for something very spectacular. But then newspapers are always apt…

— Margaret Case Harriman

When certain causes become prairie fires, politicians make difficult choices, and often at the expense of someone like Jeremiah Wright and Walter…

— Bill Moyers

Barack Obama is the President of the United States, a politician in America, a very religious country, so I understand why he…

— Bill Maher

I've always seen my campaigns against corruption as political work of a purer form than what opposition leaders usually do. All they…

— Alexei Navalny

I never wanted to be a career politician. I always am interested just to take on challenges that everyone says are impossible…

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

It is my right and my duty as a politician to speak about the problems in our country.

— Geert Wilders

It must be felt that there is no national security but in the nation's humble, acknowledged dependence upon God and His overruling…

— Franklin Pierce

The one thing the police cannot protect us from is a politician like Bill de Blasio.

— Bill O'Reilly

American democracy is spoiled by people buying everything in sight and then selling and buying everything in sight, including our politicians.

— Russell Simmons

Castro, without question, is one of the smartest politicians that's ever walked.

— Steven Soderbergh

If a famous liberal politician received a fatal swirly, would the rest of them try to ban indoor plumbing or opposable thumbs…

— Rock Cowles

“In essence, anyone who aspires to be a career politician is, by the very fact, unfit to serve.”

— Joseph Befumo

Do we really want another politician in the White House America can't trust?

— John McCain

I have to say that the judges and our judiciary system makes better decisions than the politicians.

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

As an actor, the experience that I have as a politician while sitting in Parliament - that helps me enrich myself as…

— Paresh Rawal

You have to define how much of a cultural politician you are as a performer. There are times where I just want…

— John Flansburgh

I have never understood why the politicians who are most eager to send soldiers into harm's way are always depicted as their…

— Joe Conason

People are drooling for the truth. They want honesty from politicians, and they're not getting it.

— Kinky Friedman

I don't think I'm made of the right stuff to be a politician. I think I'm made to be a loose cannon.

— Penn Jillette

Donald Trump is sort of the first candidate of his type that non-politician, true outsider, was coming to shake up the system.

— Kellyanne Conway