Politicians Quotes · Page 38

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

— Leonard Mlodinow

The trouble for lots of politicians is they worry so much about everybody liking every single thing that they do.

— Jess Phillips

Drug reformers get seduced by politicians who co-opt our language but who make no meaningful change. And when we don't hold politicians…

— Carl Hart

True crime has long been a passion for me, but I'm also a sucker for biographies, particularly of politicians, writers, or Hollywood…

— Megan Abbott

If the world was without politicians, how would we survive without the chaos they create?

— Frederick A Babb

It is important that politicians defend their ability to act without fear or favour, and it is in the public interest that…

— Jeremy Corbyn

Politicians like to tell people what they want to hear - and what they want to hear is what won't happen.

— Paul Samuelson

Politicians, they give the visible aspect of the change, but the change, the root, the anchor are in young people.

— Elie Wiesel

As the First World War made painfully clear, when politicians and generals lead nations into war, they almost invariably assume swift victory,…

— Adam Hochschild

Personally, I have as little to do with politicians as possible. The ones that I've met I've found very boring. They're extremely…

— Peter Capaldi

“Politicians who took us to war should have been given the guns and told to settle their differences themselves, instead of organising…

— Harry Patch

There are a lot of people who can't find housing, who worry about the future, and that insecurity and precarity in their…

— Jagmeet Singh

And I would like current or future politicians to make sure every avenue of diplomacy, and what you have, are exhausted before…

— Tomas Young

There should be consequences for those who openly voice racist and fascist opinions. Our politicians should stand up way more; our justice…

— Til Schweiger

What politicians do is they never get the rhetoric wrong, and the price they pay is they don't speak the truth as…

— Mary Beard

People are fed up with the career politicians who created this mess or failed to prevent it and neither was acceptable, and…

— Ted Yoho

'Uprising' was requested by so many politicians in America for use in their rallies, and we turned them down on a regular…

— Matt Bellamy

I think people vote Ukip from a frustration with politics, which is legitimate, and which politicians have to listen to.

— Sajid Javid

Politicians often call for sanctions as a way of sounding tough when they don't want to take riskier measures.

— David Ignatius

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

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

— P. J. O'Rourke

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

— Charles Kennedy

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

— Annie Lowrey

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

— Jimmy Breslin

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

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

— Rita Mae Brown

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

— Sucheta Dalal

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

— Robert J. Samuelson

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

“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

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

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