Politician Quotes · Page 64

Democracy no longer works for the poor if politicians treat them as a separate race.

— Frank Field

“A politician's Job they say is very high, for he has choose who has to go out and die.”

— Black Sabbath

Percentages! Those are for economists, polls, and politicians. Percentages can't define your identity.

— Mary E. Pearson

You have all the characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.

— Aristophanes

I am not at all a politician. I don't think I'm cut out for politics. I am certainly not going to stand…

— Pervez Musharraf

I'm not a politician and I'm not trying to change anybody's mind. I'm just exploring what I see.

— Nick Damici

American Hustle shows the FBI making real-life bribes to Washington politicians. I know, because as your U.S. senator, I turned them down.

— Larry Pressler

Over the years the political establishment has frowned if a mainstream politician mentions marriage.

— Iain Duncan Smith

Every Communist working in the mass movements should be a friend of the masses and not a boss over them, an indefatigable…

— Mao Zedong

My measure of success is to walk into a restaurant and hear a table debating drug policy. Once the public start the…

— Sam Branson

That was the miracle of Abraham Lincoln, politician. He pursued the high purpose of moving justice forward via the low arts of…

— Joe Klein

It's important for Americans to know what the guys fighting the wars have been experiencing, not just from the perspective of a…

— Brandon Webb

I don't totally believe that all of the politicians see a problem with the gap between the scores of black children and…

— Barry Williams

“Most people hates politicians and politics itself:but always vote during election to elect a president. I am always tempted to ask who…

— Aboagye Williamson De-graft

To be fair, lying is part and parcel of public life. Every politician has lied about something because they are owned by…

— Peter Schuyler

What makes me uncomfortable about [Barack] Obama is what makes me uncomfortable about any young politician who has not yet been bloodied…

— Henry Rollins

Cats are oppressed, dogs terrify them, landladies starve them, boys stone them, everybody speaks of them with contempt. If they were human…

— William Butler Yeats

I do not believe that Russians changed the outcome of the election. I want to be clear about that. But I do…

— Marco Rubio

To Americans, Washington is a giant cesspool. It's no wonder almost half of Americans (47%) now agree with the statement 'I'm mad…

— Frank Luntz

To paraphrase Hemingway, people go broke slowly and then all at once. We've been slowly going broke for years, but now it's…

— Sarah Palin

I was standing next to a famed geo-politician when the first news of the Argentine attack [on the Faulkland Islands] was received,…

— William Safire

[In Mexico] they have a VAT tax. We're on a different system. When we sell into Mexico, there's a tax. When they…

— Donald Trump

I think that many citizens understand how our system works, or rather, fails to work, for structural reasons. But who has the…

— Thomas Pogge

I think we've created a system here where only the lifelong politicians, who are used to this kind of life in the…

— Mitch Albom

As politicians we have to react to the fact that many people do not feel that they can relate to the EU.

— Angela Merkel

Biophobia is as much a part of a politician's basic equipment as a sharp suit.

— John Derbyshire

He was the only man I ever knew who could get money from the rich and votes from the poor with the…

— Tommy Douglas

The poet and the politician have this in common: their greatness depends on the courage with which they face the challenges of…

— Anonymous

Most politicians believe in just one thing - winning elections. They'll say anything to get in office and stay there.

— Harry Browne

The secret lives of politicians are always shady. People need to accept the fact that their leaders aren't perfect. No one is.

— Evan Rachel Wood

I think when you've been a career politician for 34 years you have to run on your record.

— Carly Fiorina

I am not a politician. I'm an American businessman and entrepreneur that have built two businesses, and I try to play it…

— Anthony Scaramucci

A candidate for office can have no greater advantage than muddled syntax; no greater liability than a command of language.

— Marya Mannes

“the bland politician’s smile of someone who knows that the bodies in the car trunk are, indeed, dead.”

— Douglas Coupland

A politician knows that his friends are not always his allies, and that his adversaries are not always his enemies.

— Richard M. Nixon

The Bowery station on the J line is what happens to a neighborhood once politicians realize the people who live there don't…

— Andrew Vachss

We mustn't be stiff and stand-off, you know. We must be thoroughly democratic, and patronize everybody without distinction of class.

— George Bernard Shaw

President Obama is a poker player, which the media used as part of the narrative that he was more calculated and careful…

— Meghan McCain

My grandfather... always used to say - I remember it really well - that he was proud to be a politician. He…

— Conor Lamb

I come here not as a polished politician but as a woman who has had her fair share of life's knocks.

— Pauline Hanson