Politicians Quotes · Page 26

Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.

— John F. Kennedy

We all know that looks matter, and modern politicians have always assumed that their battles are decided on both substance and image.

— Leonard Mlodinow

Senior politicians and police officers as well as their children get away with murder and run extortion rackets. It is all accepted…

— Sucheta Dalal

Cats and dogs believe politicians are like cemetery caregivers; they are on top of everyone, but nobody listens.

— Rita Mae Brown

I feel pretty disillusioned about the politics and politicians in this country - and angry.

— Lesley Sharp

We don't have politicians with dignity and morals. We never have, not since [Nelson] Mandela and [Mahatma ] Gandhi. It's really rare.

— Marina Abramovic

Politicians attend dinners at hotels with contractors. Bankers discuss interest rates at lunch.

— Jimmy Breslin

The country should not have to wonder whether politicians' stock trades were corrupt. It should not have to think about politicians' portfolios…

— Annie Lowrey

The most successful politicians are the ones who embrace their best traits while turning their liabilities into loveable attributes. And yet, many…

— Chuck Todd

You don't support politicians in their elections if whoever's seeking money only has a goal to stay in office or get in…

— Eli Broad

The popular tendency is to listen approvingly to the most extreme statements and claims of politicians and orators who seek popularity by…

— Elihu Root

“Our politicians, by their words and policies, either expand or contract the frontiers of freedom. We the people either monitor and encourage…

— Scott L. Vanatter

While it may be difficult to understand why cities and even entire states would doom themselves to insolvency by undertaking these obligations,…

— Devin Nunes

I do a lot of reading of news so I can be smarter, and I do a lot of watching TV news…

— Lizz Winstead

Politicians usually get the blame for dragging their feet on environmental issues. And fair enough. Most of them do just that. But…

— Zac Goldsmith

“Politicians are either there or here or totally at home. Their finitude is more than sufficient unto itself. I don’t mean to…

— Eugène Ionesco

Politicians study hard and work diligently their entire lives to be able to stand in front of a national audience and lie…

— Gregor Collins

For too long, Missouri has been run by career politicians, owned by corrupt consultants, high-paid lobbyists and special interests.

— Eric Greitens

Labour politicians for generations have fought to bring democracy to the House of Lords.

— Charles Kennedy

Political systems are run by self-selecting politicians. We don't draft people; it's not jury duty.

— P. J. O'Rourke

The tendency for politicians to claim credit for favorable news is as natural as flatulence in cows.

— Robert J. Samuelson

I have more fun hanging out with my friends who are musicians and rock stars. You know politicians by and large are…

— Jann Wenner

Politicians make promises and they don't do what they said they would do: the reason why so many politicians in Washington are…

— Ted Cruz

Politicians will talk strategy and tactics and policies and programs until they're blue in the face, or you strangle them and they…

— P. J. O'Rourke

The web of influence which News Corporation spun in Britain, which effectively bent politicians, police and many others in public life to…

— Thomas Watson, Jr

There's so many politicians who have given politics a pretty poor name... their actions have been demonstrated to be part of their…

— Andrew Forrest

“Birthdays are like politicians. I don’t like any of them, but they still keep coming around.”

— Jarod Kintz

The man who raises new issues has always been distasteful to politicians. He musses up what had been so tidily arranged.

— Walter Lippmann

I see myself as a former politician, and in that capacity, I say to other politicians, 'Hold back.'

— Reuven Rivlin

You know, there's a difference between politicians and leaders. Politicians read poll numbers and compromise. Leaders do what's morally right.

— Josh Fox

In Illinois, where legislators are paid $45,000, plus as much as $10,000 for leadership work, about half are full-time politicians.

— Bill Dedman

It is very unusual for a country to ask guys who are not politicians to come and run the country.

— Mario Monti

U.S. politicians must be able to criticize a nation state without every criticism - even the heavy-handed ones made for one-minute ad…

— Mary Katharine Ham

I was raised with pretty thick skin. And I think people are hungry for politicians who aren't afraid to say what they…

— Justin Trudeau

Politicians never live up to all the hopes that we invest in them but I think he [Barack Obama] has made America…

— Michael Fullilove

I'm getting a lot of followers, especially from politicians, which really amazed me. It's really an honour - I'm really grateful for…

— Bianca Andreescu

I do not admire politicians; but when they are excellent in their way, one cannot help allowing them their due.

— Horace Walpole

Tax dollars are not politicians' personal wallets, and they should stop treating them as such.

— Lauren Boebert

We do ourselves as politicians no favours if we are seen to peddle unachievable moonshine.

— Dominic Grieve

I want to be a Politician. Why? Cause I can have a lot of money. Well, maybe, all Politician's are corrupt.

— Rakii Retondo