Of course a politician's promise isn't worth the paper it's written on. — Russell Pearce Copy Share Image
An independent is the guy who wants to take the politics out of politics. — Adlai Stevenson I Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Politicians and bureaucrats are no different from the rest of us. They will maximize their incentives just like everybody else. — James M. Buchanan Copy Share Image
A firm that continues to employ a previously successful strategy eventually and inevitably falls victim to a competitor. — William Cohen Copy Share Image
You didn't elect me to tell you what you wanted to hear. You elected me to tell you the truth. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I think if we ban certain religions, if we censor the Internet, I think that at that point the terrorists will have… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
Contrary to what people think, I'm no politician, and when I have something to say I say it through my movies. — John Wayne Copy Share Image
“The Politician's goal is to build a fortune, ours is to build our homeland flowering and strong. For her we will work… — Corneliu Zelea Codreanu Copy Share Image
For all their talk about the virtues of democracy, many incumbent politicians really don't like it when voters have a voice-not if… — Paul Jacob Copy Share Image
Deficits mean future tax increases, pure and simple. Deficit spending should be viewed as a tax on future generations, and politicians who… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Machiavelli is the complete contrary of a machiavellian, since he describes the tricks of power and gives the whole show away. The… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
It is hard to get mad at Donald Trump for saying stupid things, in the same way you don't get mad at… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
It's an interesting place to begin where the country is completely divided into choosing sides, when the only side everyone should be… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
Our current tax code is one that was designed by and for the benefit of politicians and lobbyists. It punishes achievement and… — Neal Boortz Copy Share Image
Politics is not really politics any more. It is run, for the most part, by Madison Avenue advertising firms, who sell politicians… — Helen Caldicott Copy Share Image
People can be teachers and idiots; they can be philosophers and idiots; they can be politicians and idiots... in fact I think… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
This was Barrington Erle, a politician of long standing, who was still looked upon by many as a young man, because he… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
I guess politicians can be excused for thinking the electorate is stupid because they keep winning reelection. If you were Barbara Boxer… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Geneticists believe that anthropologists have decided what a race is. Ethnologists assume that their classifications embody principles which genetic science has proved… — Lancelot Hogben Copy Share Image
There are only a few safe targets left, just a few groups of people you can say anything negative about without getting… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
More frightening to me than any policy or politician is the ease with which the public is played for fools with words.… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
I met too frankly preposterous, if it weren't for their banal evil, politicians and pastors who told knowing lies about the evils… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
We have a broken system, and we need politicians who are going to fix it. We need someone who's going to govern… — Diane Guerrero Copy Share Image
The one word that no politician will ever speak, is 'enough.' Enough. — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
Public opinion is the last refuge of a politician without any opinion. — Baron Bonham-Carter Mark Bonham Carter Copy Share Image