Crooked Politician Quotes

#1. The average politician was crooked. That was my ambition, to be a crooked politician. I'd see them in these restaurants, and they'd all hold these conferences. I'd see politicians who were supposed to be on opposite sides of issues all together at one table.

Jack Kirby

#2. The ultimate enemy of Democracy is not the drug dealer of the crooked politician or the crazed skinhead. The ultimate enemy is the New King that has become so powerful it can murder its own citizens with impunity.

Gerry Spence

#3. When I started out, all I did was play my trombone.

Ray Conniff

#4. When people make my country look bad, I can't stand it.

Henry Rollins

#5. At the end of the day, flirting is a pretty universal language. Americans are more direct. British people are more indirect about everything

Rachel Weisz

#6. Precision about language can be really, really annoying. It can make you miss the point of what the other person is saying altogether.

Dana Reinhardt

#7. Marrying a woman who was reckless must have been the ultimate reckless act, requiring a lifetime of balancing to keep both of them safe

Ursula Hegi

#8. God created man on purpose, and for a purpose.

Zig Ziglar

#9. I do not believe there is any important difference between men and women - certainly not as much as they may be between one woman and another or one man and another.

Pearl S. Buck

#10. Geek? Sure, call me that. I take that as a compliment.

Brian Krzanich

#11. Mothers are supposed to listen and, afterward, to respond with some wisdom and perspective, but these things were not my mother's strong suit.

Anne Lamott

#12. You know that I try to maintain a continuous conversation with you. I take comfort in the thought that the important thing is not for one person to write to Christ but for many people to love and emulate [you]. Fortunately, despite everything, this still occurs today.

Pope John Paul I

#13. John Kerry described his Republican critics as 'the most crooked, lying group I've ever seen.' Now, that's saying something, because Kerry's both a lawyer and a politician.

Jay Leno

#14. He just didn't look like the kind of creep that would messily murder a woman in her hotel room; he looked like the kind of creep that could line her up in the sights of an assassins rifle without a shred of emotion.

Karen Marie Moning

#15. You know there's no crooked politicians. There's never a lie because there is never any truth.

Lenny Bruce

#16. During an interview, former President George W. Bush discussed his painting hobby and said, 'Never paint your wife or your mother.' Then he added, 'Because it's almost impossible to get the paint out of their hair.'

Jimmy Fallon

#17. My sense of American politics is that most of our politicians are for sale, whether they are out and out crooked, or simply beholden to corporate interests because they've taken so much money from their lobbyists.

Kam Williams

#18. Do what thy manhood bids thee do,
from none but self expect applause.
He noblest lives and noblest dies
who makes and keeps his self-made laws.

Richard Francis Burton

#19. I have a feeling that once you live through something like this, you become a little bit invincible.

Gayle Forman