Top 100 Politicians Are Quotes
#1. The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us. When the people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy.
Thomas Sowell
#2. The biggest myth about labor unions is that unions are for the workers. Unions are for unions, just as corporations are for corporations and politicians are for politicians.
Thomas Sowell
#3. All politicians are said to be thieves but all thieves are not politicians which implies that some thieves do have a conscience.
Amit Abraham
#4. I have come to believe that politicians are in the business of 'marketing' their product to the public, by exaggerating threats and over-selling government solutions.
Arnold Kling
#5. As with all politically lead governments, foreign investment is the slowest in the media section. Politicians are somewhat paranoid about the media but we still think it's worthwhile.
Rupert Murdoch
#6. Musicians are like politicians. They're the last people who should be making music, just like politicians are the last people who should be running things.
Nigel Godrich
#7. I know politics and politicians are hated, but I still believe in goodness of a heart that has selfless intentions. With the grace of God, I will make a difference.
Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore
#8. When people say all politicians are the same, ask yourself if Obama was the same as Bush, if Francois Hollande is the same as Sarkozy. They are not. They are human beings with different views and different visions for the world.
Edi Rama
#9. One of the most enduring lessons I learned in my youth: Activists do not save the masses. The masses save themselves. Activists, like politicians, are just there to take credit for it.
Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
#10. Politicians are addicted to spending and revenue extraction. As with an addict, there's little pause for moral or legal contemplation.
David Malpass
#11. When you listen to G. T. Stoop, you understand the importance of being a honorable person, you get charged to fight for the truth, you get angry that so many politicians are playing games with people's trust.
Joan Bauer
#12. Successful politicians are people who know how to make us think well of them without our realizing that that's what they're doing; they know how to make us admire and trust them.
Barton Swaim
#13. Every day things get better because politicians are addressing the fiscal challenges more aggressively.
Meredith Whitney
#14. Politicians are like God. No one believes in them, they haven't done anything for ages, and they give jobs to their immediate family
Andy Zaltzman
#15. Maybe its time for politicians to fight back a little bit in terms of this notion that politicians are all in it for themselves, we're all the same, we're not driven by sincere motives. Because the fact of the matter is the vast majority are.
Nicola Sturgeon
#16. Natural politicians are skilled actors, recreating reality, adjusting and ad-libbing, synthesizing the scenes, saying the same thing over and over again and making it seem that theyare saying it for the first time.
David Maraniss
#17. I do not deny that there may be other well-founded causes for the hatred which various classes feel toward politicians, but the main one seems to me that politicians are symbols of the fact that every class must take every other class into account.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
#18. The political arena is the funniest.They [politicians] are always pretending to change, but they never change. They're the best actors and actresses in the world. They've always been hilarious since the beginning of time.
Paul Mooney
#19. Isn't that what our job to do is right there in media to discuss what politicians are doing so they stop doing it.
Eric Bolling
#20. It is largely on television and radio that real probing of what politicians are up to has to happen.
John Humphrys
#21. Politicians are fools and the games they play are fools games.
M.J. Rose
#22. Politicians are terrified of losing touch with folks back home but content to be clueless about government's failure to fix real problems.
Jim Cooper
#23. I believe that all politicians are unprincipled crooks and I still believe that they are better than the alternative.
Neil Gaiman
#24. Politicians are simply reflections of the public.
Wes Jackson
#25. Politicians are easy to attack, but frankly, we are all guilty of not meeting the needs of Africa's young people properly.
Ama Ata Aidoo
#26. Of course great politicians are always liable to be wrong about something, and the more people tell them they are wrong, the more stubbornly they defend their error.
Ferdinand Mount
#27. it is said that roosters think the sun rises because they crow. Politicians are much the same.
Charles Murray
#28. Politicians are so detested. And the main cause is not policy; it's the fact that there is no trust.
Zac Goldsmith
#29. Politicians are people who learn not to blink, when they lie.
Robert Black
#30. I'm not saying that all politicians are awful. I don't know any of them well enough to say whether they're awful or not. But almost every day, you find out something about them that's appalling. Maybe we shouldn't be surprised any longer.
Peter Capaldi
#31. Why I've never been that fond of politics and only got into it recently kicking and screaming, because I don't think politicians are going to reverse the trajectory of this country. I think it's going to depend on the American people understanding what is fair and what makes their lives better.
Charles Koch
#32. When we have a Deputy Prime Minister who tells people not to drive cars but has two Jags himself, and where the Minister who tells people not to have two homes turns out to have nine himself no wonder the public believe politicians are hypocrites.
William Hague
#33. The things they don't tell you in schools these days, geez. Have a look at your owners. The politicians are put there to give you the idea you have freedom of choice. You don't. You have no choice; you have owners. They own you. They own everything.
George Carlin
#34. The feelings of politicians are rarely transparent.
John Ferling
#35. Politicians are no different than the rest of the public.
Scott McCallum
#37. Popular culture tells you that schools and parents don't know what's going on, the police are dogs, politicians are all liars and scum, and any crime that's not committed by the Mafia is done by the CIA.
Stanley Crouch
#38. Do you vote? If not, is it because you think it doesn't matter because things never change, or politicians are evil on both sides, or one vote in several million doesn't count? Yeah, that's learned helplessness.
David McRaney
#39. Italian politicians are stupid and expensive, that's why they should be fired, abolished, or better eliminated.
William C. Brown
#40. Either man is obsolete or war is. War is the ultimate tool of politics. Political leaders look out only for their own side. Politicians are always realistically maneuvering for the next election. They are obsolete as fundamental problem-solvers.
R. Buckminster Fuller
#41. It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
G.K. Chesterton
#42. Things poll well, but people don't believe that politicians are telling the truth. Politicians might mention renewable energy, and the public will think, "That sounds good, but I don't believe they're going to do everything they can to build those towers."
Zephyr Teachout
#43. Politicians are much like aging authors and older women. The dangerous phase in their lives is when they are no longer content with the respect of friends but demand the adulation of an audience.
Michael Dobbs
#44. If I want to make political decisions, I should stand for election. If I want to do something in the legal field, that's different; that is my - they are my qualifications, but you know, the politicians are the ones who stand up there and are answerable to the people.
Cherie Blair
#45. The politicians are all useless individuals. Nobody is reducing the problems in the U.S. or Europe, just putting on a Band-Aid and postponing the problems endlessly.
Marc Faber
#46. The secret lives of politicians are always shady. People need to accept the fact that their leaders aren't perfect. No one is.
Evan Rachel Wood
#47. Politicians are more concerned with "issues" than "principles," but talked as though the two nouns had the same meaning.
Tom Clancy
#48. Attack politics costs us dearly in terms of insight into the candidates. In a presidential campaign, the focus is so tight that the politicians are afraid to say anything that hasn't been scripted.
Jack Germond
#49. Politicians are usually the first to forget that if you assume someone else is acting in bad faith, they will do the same to you. Questioning motives poisons the well.
John Sununu
#50. Politics is a game and a profession. It doesn't really serve the people the politicians are supposed to serve.
Kit Harington
#51. Italian politicians are too stupid to deserve my vote, but they can get over it with my critical, denunciatory, satirical, vitriolic and vituperative invectives.
William C. Brown
#52. I often hear people talk about how corrupt their politicians are, it makes me laugh because, the very same people who are complaining are just as corrupt. When they get to those same places of authority, they do exactly the same thing for which they were complaining against the previous politicians.
Sunday Adelaja
#53. 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
#54. Most politicians are vain. Many of them are stupid.
Alex Pareene
#55. Politicians are like little cats: They are never serious; they always mess up the things; they are fainthearted and spoilt. And when they look at the mirror, they see a tiger there, till the hammer of reality break that mirror very harshly!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#56. The way I see politics is, I don't think it's cynical to accept the fact politicians are human beings, that they're flawed, and they represent the best and the worst of us.
Beau Willimon
#57. Pakistanis can't trust. They've seen in history that people, particularly politicians, are corrupt. And they're misguided by people in the name of Islam. They're told: 'Malala is not a Muslim, she's not in purdah, she's working for America.'
Malala Yousafzai
#58. I'm in agreement with David Miliband when he says our generation of Labour politicians are not willing to hand over the direction of the country without a serious electoral fight.
Douglas Alexander
#59. Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote.
William E. Simon
#60. All politicians are to some extent salesmen.
George Will
#61. Successful ... politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies.
Walter Lippmann
#62. The most successful politicians are the ones who embrace their best traits while turning their liabilities into loveable attributes. And yet, many a candidate tries to run as something they aren't simply because the strategy dictates it.
Chuck Todd
#63. Politicians are really getting desperate. In fact, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid sent out a final fundraising email to Democrats with the subject line, 'I'm begging.' Because what better way to show you're a strong leader than acting like you're drunk and dialing your ex?
Jimmy Fallon
#64. Politicians are interesting people, most of them are smart and hard-working-I mean, they keep schedules no one else would think of keeping. Some of them live down to the caricature, but most of them are good people and they are charming.
Tucker Carlson
#65. Politicians are like ships: noisiest when lost in a fog.
Bennett Cerf
#66. However, let us not presume politicians are ineffectual, for whenever the bombs and napalm are falling, the mines taking off legs and the bullets punching holes in human flesh, they are always behind the firing line, deciding who should die.
Neal Asher
#67. Politicians are a lot like diapers. They should be changed frequently, and for the same reasons.
Benjamin Franklin
#68. I believe that almost all politicians are honest. For every bribed alderman there are hundreds of politicians, low paid or not paid at all, doing their level best without thanks or glory to make our system work. If this were not true, we would never have gotten past the thirteen colonies.
Robert A. Heinlein
#69. Advertising men and politicians are dangerous if they are separated. Together they are diabolical.
Phillip Adams
#70. How right politicians are to look upon their constituents as cattle! Anyone who has any experience of dealing with any class as such knows the futility of appealing to intelligence, indeed
to any other qualities than those of brutes.
Aleister Crowley
#71. It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil, ... that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.
George McGovern
#72. No one will really understand politics until they understand that politicians are not trying to solve our problems. They are trying to solve their own problems - of which getting elected and re-elected are number one and number two. Whatever is number three is far behind.
Thomas Sowell
#74. Bad politicians are not Born.They are created.Created by the good people who go on a picnic on voting day.
Avinash Rai
#75. Politicians are just a bunch of local bandits, sent by their local voters to raid the public treasury.
Will Rogers
#76. Right after liberal Democrats, the most dangerous politicians are country club Republicans.
Thomas Sowell
#78. Politicians are better liars than writers.
Shan Sa
#79. I don't subscribe to the theory that all politicians are crap. I think the 'cool people' often take that position.
Eddie Izzard
#80. One's politics are part of one even when one is writing. But if I want to say anything about the state of civil society, I will write an essay. The responsibilities you feel as a novelist are literary ones, I think, not civic ones. And I think politicians are interesting to write about.
Thomas Mallon
#81. I am cynical about politicians. My experience of politicians has been thoroughly negative. I have found that politicians are people that can not be taken at face value. There are very few politicians I have been impressed with.
Zac Goldsmith
#82. Politicians are good at saying how Government must do more, but we must also think carefully about where Government should do less.
Charles Kennedy
#83. I think it's the real world. The people we're writing about in professional sports, they're suffering and living and dying and loving and trying to make their way through life just as the brick layers and politicians are.
Red Smith
#84. Politicians are interested in the health of the people like predators savor live prey.
A.E. Samaan
#85. [On Brazil:] In our country everything is weakening. The money is weak. Democracy is weak and the politicians are very weak. Everything that is weak dies one day.
Carolina Maria De Jesus
#86. Politicians are probably the most underrated people in our society.
Jacob K. Javits
#87. Few politicians are good at taking the high ground and throwing themselves off it.
Peter Mandelson
#88. Politicians are good listeners. Because if they're not, they aren't politicians for very long.
Andrew Cuomo
#89. I want to be a politician. I think I understand how the system works, I think a lot of politicians are corrupt, and it's about time we put some people in there who are going to look out for the majority of the people instead of the rich people.
Charles Barkley
#90. Politicians are a lot like five-year-olds. You know: one day they're best friends and five minutes later they're rolling around in the sandpit biting chunks out of each other.
Robert Muchamore
#91. I manage my business; politicians are doing their business. I can only work within their rules and regulations. I can't pick up a political fight.
Hans Vestberg
#92. I would just like to say something, ladies and gentlemen. Something that I think is very important. It is that, you, we - we own this country. We - we own it. It is not you owning it, and not politicians owning it. Politicians are employees of ours.
Clint Eastwood
#93. Politicians are forever coming up with 'solutions' to virtually every imaginable imperfection in life. But, if we give them more power and more of our money, we are very unlikely to end up better off on net balance.
Thomas Sowell
#94. Humor is a powerful tool, and some of these politicians are so far out and easy to lampoon. They just provide such delicious opportunity.
George Takei
#95. Unfortunately politicians are not very sound people or they wouldn't be politicians.
Jim Rogers
#96. Multiculturalism asserts that all cultures are equal and therefore none may criticize another; intellectuals and politicians are therefore reluctant to declare the obvious superiority of Western culture to Islamic culture.
Edwin A. Locke
#97. Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them.
Charley Reese
#99. We are told, that the subjection of Americans may tend to the diminution of our own liberties; an event, which none but very perspicacious politicians are able to foresee. If slavery be thus fatally contagious, how is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?
Samuel Johnson
#100. Politicians are masters of sounding like they agree with you.
Mike Cloud
