Bad Politician Quotes

#1. The verdict on Prince Metternich will soon be out: An excellent diplomat and a bad politician.

Franz Grillparzer

#2. I think Winston Churchill is an appallingly bad politician, and always has been, that he hung onto power long after he should have done, and that his post-war administration was a disaster.

Malcolm Muggeridge

#3. A good head and a bad heart make a good politician

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#4. Collect the power. Because our fear has power. And our fear is paralyzing, and our fear sets us off course. So it's about gathering and collecting that power, waking it up. And dedicating your life to honoring it.

Rod Stryker

#5. Chance is an element of life. What I try to do is study what I call the mechanics of reality as carefully as I can.

Paul Auster

#6. Politicians need religion even more than a hermit in retreat. If the hermit acts inspired by bad motivation, he'll harm only himself. But if a politician, who can directly influence an entire society, acts with bad motivation, a large number of people will experience the negative consequences.

Dalai Lama XIV

#7. Bad as political fiction can be, there is always a politician prepared to make it look artistic by comparison.

Christopher Hitchens

#8. The right of conquest has no foundation other than the right of the strongest.

Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

#9. We are living in a science-fiction nightmare where children are gasping for breath on bad-air days because somebody gave money to a politician. And my children and the kids of millions of other Americans can no longer go fishing and eat their catch because somebody gave money to a politician.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

#10. Don't listen to me. I'm not a politician. I know nothing about politics. But people are cheering when something very bad happens to him [Donald Trump]. So that's got to make you think before voting for him.

Sacha Baron Cohen

#11. On issues carrying as much emotional freight as race - and there aren't many - a U.S. senator needs to speak with care and consistency. Otherwise, he could find people speaking at his own retirement tribute.

Gordon Smith

#12. I've dealt with politicians my entire life. You never make a bad deal with a politician. They're so easy.

Donald Trump

#13. I know that we have known Malcolm all our lives. But he is a murderer and a liar. Warlocks are immortal, but not invulnerable. When you see him, put your blade in his heart.

Cassandra Clare

#14. Lee Iacocca, who said to Dolly Parton, Why do you need an airbag? Never got a dinner!

Red Buttons

#15. Look, Orrin Hatch is not a bad guy. But he is an old guy, and he's a lifer politician.

Scott Howell

#16. There's two theories to arguing with a woman. Neither one works. Will Rogers The reason that there are so few women comics is that so few women can bear being laughed at.

Anna Russell

#17. I would always slip away to the cinema. I always found something absolutely extraordinary about the fact that these actors were always kind of kicking hard at some new dimension they were doing on film.

Geoffrey Rush

#18. We have a media that presents every politician as being as bad as the next. There is no distinguishing between one good idea or another; no explanation of why constitutional change should be uppermost in the minds of the people I represent.

David Blunkett

#19. An actor knows two important things - to be honest in what he is doing and to be in touch with the audience. That's not bad advice for a politician either.

Ronald Reagan

#20. He reveals that he has been a poor politician, a bad judge and a malevolent individual.

Gough Whitlam

#21. Sarah Palin said perhaps the most irresponsible thing I've ever heard any politician say. She said, 'The only thing that stops a bad guy with a nuke is a good guy with a nuke.' You think she realizes that nuking Russia might not be good for someone who can see Russia from her house?

Bill Maher

#22. Some politician some years ago said that bad officials are elected by good voters who do not vote.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#23. I never do the cute thing with animals; they are interesting shapes. I just use their profile. Because German shepherds are so easily recognizable, they would fall outside my purview.

Billy Al Bengston

#24. Nothing that I say in my music is a lie.

Shy Glizzy

#25. Learning to read is probably the most difficult and revolutionary thing that happens to the human brain and if you don't believe that, watch an illiterate adult try to do it.

John Steinbeck

#26. 90% of politicians give the other 10% a bad name.

Henry A. Kissinger

#27. The SuperPACs and the Citizens United ruling that gives corporations a voice in the political process are all bad news. They made it so you can now lie, and the politician being promoted on that lie will not be held responsible for it.

Jesse Ventura

#28. My words are unerring tools of
destruction, and I've come unequipped with the ability to disarm them.

Maggie Stiefvater

#29. Jack and Jill came to the hill
on a grave and somber mission
you've made them mad
the time's so bad
to be a politician"
"Jack and Jill came to hill
to do some deadly deeds
they weren't far wrong
to judge how long
a bleeding liberal bleeds.

James Patterson

#30. One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one.

Henry Miller

#31. Look within, thou art the Buddha.

Gautama Buddha

#32. Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.

Aristophanes

#33. Comparing Apple to Netflix is like comparing apples to oranges, especially if the oranges made so many mistakes that people stopped eating oranges and just went back to Blockbuster.

Reed Hastings