Politician Quotes · Page 66

The rapists of the intellectual world become politicians; the seducers become artists.

— Robert Anton Wilson

I think there is a break down of trust generally, between people and politicians. I think that's come about for a whole…

— Theresa May

Everything a politician promises at election time has to be paid for either by higher taxation or by borrowing.

— Margaret Thatcher

I'm not a minister, I'm not a philosopher, I'm not a politician, I'm in another category.

— Sun Ra

In politics, as in womanizing, failure is decisive. It sheds its retrospective gloom on earlier endeavor which at the time seemed full…

— Malcolm Muggeridge

It seems to me that politicians ought to use the same words as other people.

— Barney Frank

It would probably strike the average politician as absurd to argue that the best way to fix the economy is to stop…

— David Harsanyi

You didn't elect me to tell you what you wanted to hear. You elected me to tell you the truth.

— Barack Obama

I've never met a politician I haven't wanted to walk away from, and I've yet to hear a politician speak and actually…

— Ray Winstone

I can't tell you how many times I've had conversations with politicians who've done something morally reprehensible but not indictable, yet still…

— Gail Collins

In India, people still want an image to connect to and, even if it's a false one, they will stick to it.…

— Abhimanyu Singh

The sort of morality which the priests inculcate is a very subtle policy, far finer than the politicians', and the world is…

— Henry David Thoreau

We have to make sure that not only we [politicians] actually focus on, but the entire nation knows we're focusing on, growth…

— Joe Biden

Let me be clear - no one is above the law. Not a politician, not a priest, not a criminal, not a…

— Antonio Villaraigosa

Like environmentalists, politicians generally privilege flora and fauna over folks. (NIMBYs excepted. Senator Edward Kennedy is a not-in-my-backyard environmentalist: he opposes wind…

— Ilana Mercer

If you're a politician, you can see there might be times when, to secure the greater good, you have to take a…

— Ken Loach

Don't speak to me about your religion; first show it to me in how you treat other people. Don't tell me how…

— Cory Booker

From my experience let me say this: in today's world it is no bad thing for a politician to have had the…

— Margaret Thatcher

To the extent that we consume, in our present circumstances, we are guilty. To the extent that we guilty consumers are conservationists,…

— Wendell Berry

That's the one thing a politician mustn't have - political opinions or principles. He can have prejudices - indeed he must have…

— Helen McCloy

The cost of campaigning has skyrocketed in recent years because of the falloff in TV viewership. With only one-third as many people…

— Dick Morris

Senator [Stephen] Douglas is of world-wide renown. All the anxious politicians of his party, or who have been of his party for…

— Abraham Lincoln

There are many ways to be influential. You can work for politicians or in government and make a difference. And for young…

— Hillary Clinton

“If there's a child on the south side of Chicago who can't read, that matters to me, even if it's not my…

— Barack Obama

A firm that continues to employ a previously successful strategy eventually and inevitably falls victim to a competitor.

— William Cohen

Politicians and bureaucrats are no different from the rest of us. They will maximize their incentives just like everybody else.

— James M. Buchanan

It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public.

— W. Somerset Maugham

If you want to understand a nation, look at its dances and listen to its folk songs - don't pay any attention…

— Agnes de Mille

I think, in these days, especially in the States, you have to be a politician or an assassin or something, to really…

— Jim Morrison

I am not a parliamentarian. I am a politician. Some MPs leave and are itching to get back. I don't feel that.…

— David Blunkett

Ideas are the only things that count, and politicians are, for the most part, pretty much irrelevant.

— Ron Paul

Remember, politicians get votes by promising everything to everyone, always at the expense of some other invisible taxpayers.

— Ron Paul

“A brick could be used as food for thought. Every politician should chew on that.
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— Jarod Kintz

I am sure that all politicians seek the home connection with the voter. But [Margaret Thatcher] carried it to extremes.

— Hilary Mantel

I think if we ban certain religions, if we censor the Internet, I think that at that point the terrorists will have…

— Rand Paul

Contrary to what people think, I'm no politician, and when I have something to say I say it through my movies.

— John Wayne

Nobody looks at opinion polls with more attention than politicians, but of course you've got to remember that a single poll is…

— Malcolm Turnbull

Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

I believe you [Donald Trump] know politicians better than I do because for 40 years you've been funding liberal Democratic politicians.

— Ted Cruz

It's nonsense that people join the army to serve the country, like the politicians do it only for the sake of the…

— Sam Manekshaw