Politician Quotes

#1. Fascism is aided and advanced by the apathy of those who are tired of being conned and lied to by a bankrupt liberal establishment, whose only reason to vote for a politician or support a political party is to elect the least worst. This, for many voters, is the best Clinton can offer.

Chris Hedges

#2. The most basic decision a modern politician must make is whether to be aggressive or conciliatory.

Dick Morris

#3. My coach was a great politician, so he did most of the work. He was good.

Dorothy Hamill

#4. I'm not a historian. I'm a politician. What is important for us is that the countries of the region and the people grow closer to each other, and that they are able to prevent aggression and injustice.

Hassan Rouhani

#5. The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.

Theodore Roosevelt

#6. Rock n' roll seems to have changed society much more than any politician, I think it really has.

Roger Daltrey

#7. You know that a given in life in human nature, is that at a sporting event, a baseball game, a football game, you never introduce a politician, is because he'll be booed. I don't care if he's the most beloved person in the world, its part of the game.

Mark Russell

#8. If you want to curry favor with a politician, give him credit for something someone else did.

James Abourezk

#9. I don't think I'm made of the right stuff to be a politician. I think I'm made to be a loose cannon.

Penn Jillette

#10. A consensus politician is someone who does something that he doesn't believe is right because it keeps people quiet when he does it.

John Major

#11. People power. It has no limits. In politics, every politician in Ukraine is afraid of that. They know, if people go to the streets, nobody feels safe.

Vitali Klitschko

#12. War was ... the chief or maybe the only source of patriotism, and many a politician, from prehistory up to this morning, unified a discontented citizenry by pointing out a national danger and declaring war on it.

Barbara Holland

#13. I mean if you have ever found a politician who says, 'No, no, I would do everything exactly as I did,' then you can tell when he is lying because his lips are moving.

John Major

#14. I answer that question by saying: 'Why Meg Whitman' which is: I'm not a career politician. I spent 30 years in business. I can tell you that people in California have had it with career politicians: they are done.

Meg Whitman

#15. A politician is the devil's quilted anvil; He fashions all sins on him, and the blows are never heard.

John Webster

#16. I happen to believe that if we want to replace a lifetime politician like Barack Obama, who had no experience leading anything, we've got to nominate a leader if we're going to replace someone who is not a leader.

Mitt Romney

#17. As a politician, you only meet two types of people. People with problems, and people who are right.

Gyles Brandreth

#18. I am not in politics. 'President Mutombo?' No, no, no. There has never been a politician in my family, and I am not going to try to be the first one.

Dikembe Mutombo

#19. Any politician or campaigner trying to pull the wool over the eyes of the public won't get very far.

Nicola Sturgeon

#20. Public opinion is the pennant on a nation's mast which shows the politician and the editor how to trim the sails.

Austin O'Malley

#21. Public Interest is a term used by every politician to support his ideas.

W. M. Kiplinger

#22. Of course a politician's promise isn't worth the paper it's written on.

Russell Pearce

#23. I had Eondel teach me," Raoden said. "Back when I was trying to find ways to
prove that my father's laws were foolish. Eondel chose fencing becausehe
thought it would be most useful to me, as a politician. I never figured I'd end up using it to keep my wife from slicing me to pieces.

Brandon Sanderson

#24. On the outside, the three Lynch brothers appeared remarkably dissimilar: Declan, a butter-smooth politician; Ronan, a bull in a china-shop world; Matthew, a sunlit child. On the inside, the Lynch brothers were remarkably similar: They all loved cars, themselves, and each other.

Maggie Stiefvater

#25. Under every stone lurks a politician.

Aristophanes

#26. I've grown to love Barack Obama. Hillary is no Bernie Sanders. But she's a politician, and she understands Congress. And I think with that kind of twisted beauty, she could lead our country.

Eileen Myles

#27. When a politician says, concerning an issue involving science, that the debate is over, you may be sure the debate is rolling on and not going swimmingly for his side.

George Will

#28. Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor.

Lady Bird Johnson

#29. 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

#30. I am a patriot. I would think there are no politicians who are not patriots. Since I am a politician, I often get criticized as I try to exercise what I believe to be right. However, if you mind such criticism, I think you can't protect people's lives.

Shinzo Abe

#31. I've never been a politician, but , I am totally committed to the Republican Party. I feel very honored to be the front runner.

Donald Trump

#32. I am a huge admirer of Franklin Roosevelt's, and I believe social security has done untold good in alleviating the once-widespread issue of poverty among the elderly. FDR believed in the greatness and generosity of Americans - but he was also a cold-blooded politician.

Jon Meacham

#33. The prime minister had abused his position as minister in charge of the SIS to embarrass another politician only months before an election.

Nicky Hager

#34. Apparently, on New Texas, killing a politician was not malum in se, and was mallum prohibitorum only to the extent that what happened to the politician was in excess of what he deserved.

H. Beam Piper

#35. A statesman is a successful politician who is dead.

Thomas Reed

#36. he wasn't smart enough to be a gangster or a politician, which is any dacoit's ultimate goal. We

Baba Rampuri

#37. A politician should not be written off till he or she is cremated.

George Fernandes

#38. I suppose it's easy to play a hypocritical politician with a smiling face; it's also quite gratifying to play.

Ian McDiarmid

#39. A wise politician will never grudge a genuflexion or a rapture if it is expected of him by prevalent opinion.

Frederick Scott Oliver

#40. I'd rather work with a grassroots organization than in politics. I'm not sure I'd be the best politician because I don't think I'm good about tactfully tiptoeing around questions in the right way.

Lauren Mayberry

#41. Well, I couldn't do the day-to-day stuff of being a politician or anything, but I just think everybody should have an opinion and everybody should vote, and that's what we're built on.

Toby Keith

#42. Being a politician, I know how motivating it can be when the public is outraged.

Margrethe Vestager

#43. The drunken politician leaps upon the street where mothers weep, and the saviors who are fast asleep, they wait for you.

Bob Dylan

#44. We can never be sure just which other business cards are in the pocket of pundit, politician, or professor. We can't be sure, in short, just who our elites are working for. But we suspect it is not us.

Christopher L. Hayes

#45. It is a maxim, founded on the universal experience of mankind, that no nation is to be trusted farther than it is bound by its interest; and no prudent statesman or politician will venture to depart from it.

George Washington

#46. Education is not something that the government invests in. Because if you invest in education, no politician can come and tell you something that doesn't make sense.

Angelique Kidjo

#47. A politician's Job they say is very high, for he has choose who has to go out and die.

Black Sabbath

#48. The worst thing a politician can be is dull. At least I'm interesting.

Richard M. Nixon

#49. The conduct of a wise politician is ever suited to the present posture of affairs. Often by foregoing a part he saves the whole, and by yielding in a small matter secures a greater.

Plutarch

#50. When I think of the person that I thought was Bill Clinton, I think he had genuine remorse. When I think of the person that I now see is 100 percent politician, I think he's sorry he got caught.

Monica Lewinsky

#51. I'd never compromise my position as a journalist by having a friendly relationship with a politician.

Rebekah Brooks

#52. As a politician, you have to deal with someone wanting you to fail every day. I think I prefer being in a situation where generally people are rooting for me, and if they aren't rooting for me, they aren't out there to see my downfall. I respect the people who have the stomach for it.

John Legend

#53. [The politician] is asked to stand, he wants to sit, and he is expected to lie.

Winston Churchill

#54. My mother was a politician in my formative years.

Antonia Fraser

#55. It will take some time before a politician will capture the imagination of the American people and have the vision and understanding to do what is necessary for a better future for the people of America and the world.

David Korten

#56. A politician taking campaign money from gamblers in Nevada is like one taking campaign money from the auto people in Michigan. Gambling is our legal business.

Paul Laxalt

#57. In all the things I've gone through as a politician, I have seen that in this system it is really very difficult to make any headway without being somehow tainted. And let me say, 'Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.'

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

#58. No politician is threatened by the child protective constituency, because it does not exist.

Andrew Vachss

#59. Government has no wealth, and when a politician promises to give you something for nothing, he must first confiscate that wealth from you
either by direct taxes, or by the cruelly indirect tax of inflation.

John Wayne

#60. ( ... ) my money guy Richard is going without a tie now, like a politician who wants to appeal to the suffering common man (or perhaps every morning his firm takes the ties and shoelaces away from the brokers and financial planners to keep them from offing themselves)

Jess Walter

#61. The more that I know of politics, the more it makes me realize that being a politician is largely useless.

Sophia Bush

#62. You're never gonna find the perfect politician.

Anthony Scaramucci

#63. I can't stand politicians. A politician is someone who promises you a bridge, even when there's no river.

Gregory David Roberts

#64. Barack Obama isn't the first politician to break a promise, torture the truth or outright lie to the American people. But, he certainly is among the most accomplished at it.

Bob Beauprez

#65. I don't think I would be a good politician. I kid about it when I get a standing ovation. Sometimes I'll say, "I may run for Governor," but it's strictly a joke.

Liberace

#66. If you're a woman, all they can think about your relationship with a politician is that you're either sleeping with him or advising him about clothes.

Gloria Steinem

#67. Anybody who is an ambitious politician would never ever aspire to a Vice Presidency. And yet, people find themselves in that position, and so, therein lies the rub.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus

#68. I'm no politician but I do feel that a lot of damage was done because of misguided principals and America is still suffering from it.

Jack Bruce

#69. We must beware of trying to build a society in which nobody counts for anything except a politician or an official, a society where enterprise gains no reward and thrift no privileges

Winston Churchill

#70. A statesman makes the occasion, but the occasion makes the politician.

George Stillman Hillard

#71. The Pashtun tribes are always engaged in private or public war. Every man is a warrior, a politician and a theologian Every large house is a real feudal fortress ... Eve ry family cultivates its vendetta; every clan, its feud ... Nothing is ever forgotten and very few debts are left unpaid.

Winston Churchill

#72. Normally, anything done in the name of 'the kids' strikes me as either slightly sentimental or faintly sinister - that redolence of moral blackmail that adheres to certain charitable appeals and certain kinds of politician. (Not for nothing is baby-kissing the synonym for public insincerity.)

Christopher Hitchens

#73. The wealth of the country, its capital, its credit, must be saved from the predatory poor as well as the predatory rich, but above all from the predatory politician.

James J. Hill

#74. Is the Archbishop's blessing any more meaningful than the Politician's handshake? The come, they go, with bigger things than us on their minds.

Edward Abbey

#75. There is no such thing as a nonpolitical speech by a politician.

Richard M. Nixon

#76. I've had great pleasure meeting the likes of Newt Gingrich and having a chat with the fellow on a staircase. I found him completely dishonest and totally likeable, because he doesn't care! He knows what a politician is, and he's a perfect embodiment of one.

John Lydon

#77. Freedom is living without government coercion. So when a politician talks about freedom for this group or that, ask yourself whether he is advocating more government action or less.

Ron Paul

#78. Every politician, every president gets votes by getting people that don't like him to like him. That's why politicians are slippery: because they talk out of both sides of their mouth.

Henry Rollins

#79. Who was Hitler?' I said.
Tyrena smiled slightly. 'An Old Earth politician who did some writing.

Dan Simmons

#80. It's interesting to play a politician who gets stuff done.

Kevin Spacey

#81. At home, you always have to be a politician; when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman.

Harold Macmillan

#82. It would probably be very sensible to be in love with someone who was not in the arts and who wasn't so prone to ups and downs. When I think of people who aren't in the arts, I immediately think of politicians for some reason, and I would never want to be with a politician.

Anjelica Huston

#83. I set out as a sort of self-dependent politician. My opinions were my own. I dashed at all prejudices. I scorned to follow anybodyin matter of opinion ... All were, therefore, offended at my presumption, as they deemed it.

William Cobbett

#84. The ideal politician is an ordinary representative of his class with extraordinary abilities.

Rick Perlstein

#85. When our passion for the Great Commission, becomes our search for the Great Politician, we know we're lost.

Wes Moore

#86. There is not one politician in Burundi who would not murder another for the sake of one hour of political power.

Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah

#87. Tony Blair is a brilliant politician. Unfortunately, his legacy is entwined with George W. Bush because of Iraq.

Noel Gallagher

#88. The president we have today is a typical Washington politician that's prone to hyperbole and decisiveness and false outrage. And I think it's very sad - very sad to watch.

Marco Rubio

#89. I spent a weekend in the White House with President Clinton, back in '99, I guess. We played golf and just hung out and talked on many subjects. I saw him several times subsequently in L.A. He's the smartest man I ever met, a great politician. Everybody was star struck around him.

Dennis Quaid

#90. Let me be clear - no one is above the law. Not a politician, not a priest, not a criminal, not a police officer. We are all accountable for our actions.

Antonio Villaraigosa

#91. Any politician who wants to run for president will come to me in a few years.

Sun Myung Moon

#92. Yes, I'm married. But my wife understands that a good politician has to be appealing to the ladies. The fact that I haven't even gotten close to cheating on her is a disappointment to us
both.

Aziz Ansari

#93. The ruling idea of the politician - stated rather bluntly - is that those who are opposed to him exist for the purpose of being made to serve his ends, if he can get power enough in his hands to force these ends upon them.

Auberon Herbert

#94. He [Merlin] is slightly from another world and place, so it's about having fun and presenting it in a new way. He's more of a politician, and slightly Machiavellian, but there's also a lovely relationship going on between Merlin and Arthur. There's so much to be had, really.

Joseph Fiennes

#95. If you are an [American] politician it's very hard to imagine "now we are going to treat these guys as our equals? That's ridiculous. What have they ever done to deserve that?"

Hooman Majd

#96. Mr Brown is a politician of exceptional experience and ability, and I am sure he will discharge the office of Prime Minister with distinction

Bertie Ahern

#97. The only politician ever to have entered parliament with honourable intentions, was Guy Fawkes.

Terry Deary

#98. A politician knows that his friends are not always his allies, and that his adversaries are not always his enemies.

Richard M. Nixon

#99. There's nothing in my background that would have said I was destined to be a senior politician.

Nicola Sturgeon

#100. The only way for a reporter to look at a politician is down.

H.L. Mencken