Quotes About Politicians Promises

#1. Politicians never keep all their promises.

Michael Moore

#2. As a comedian, I think we all look for those areas where the truth diverts from what people are saying. That's why politics is such a rich area for us, because politicians make promises, and they don't keep them, and when we point out the difference, we get the laugh.

Bill Maher

#3. Without knowledge there can be no sure progress. Vice and barbarism are the inseparable companions of ignorance. Nor is it too much to say that, except in rare instances, the highest virtue is attained only through intelligence.

Charles Sumner

#4. Every politician brings in a wide range of context, promises and characters to bring his mission of you to listen to his words and vote for him and later he won't listen to you at any range.

Auliq Ice

#5. One truth discovered is immortal, and entitles its author to be so; for, like a new substance in nature, it cannot be destroyed.

William Hazlitt

#6. Experience is the only real currency of life

David Lassman

#7. No wonder Americans hate politics when, year in and year out, they hear politicians make promises that won't come true because they don't even mean them - campaign fantasies that win elections but don't get nations moving again

William J. Clinton

#8. Despite their promises at the last Election, the politicians had not yet changed the climate.

Evelyn Waugh

#9. Elections in L.A. are so different. Here you've got politicians with phony smiles making false promises to voters with fake boobs and bad toupees.

Jay Leno

#10. When people told me I'd never make it, I listened to the one person who said I could: me.

Shannon Sharpe

#11. What generally happens in this county is that our politicians don't serve us well because they don't tell the truth, and they don't keep their promises.

Peter Garrett

#12. It started off at a club called Disobey, around the corner from where I live.

Richard D. James

#13. After believing in promises made and never fulfilled by Labour, people have become increasingly disenchanted with the process assuming that all politicians will say anything to gain power, and then never follow through.

Adam Rickitt

#14. Politics in a democracy is transactional: Politicians seek votes by promising to do things for voters, who seek promises in exchange for their votes.

George Will

#15. We fall, we fall together.

Nalini Singh

#16. I've been to sorrow's kitchen and licked all of the pots.
Zora Neale Hurston

Sherri Rosen

#17. After Election, the politicians forgot their promises and enjoyed an earned rest until New Year, when they started work on the next Election.

Betty Smith

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

Gregory David Roberts

#19. All of the promises of politicians, generals, madmen, and crusaders that war can create peace have yet to be borne out.

Barbara Kingsolver

#20. (and Catholics give out forgiveness at about the same rate as politicians give out promises and whores give out)

Zadie Smith

#21. Voters - here's the real challenge: we don't need empty promises made by politicians whose only goal in life is to get elected or re-elected. We need leaders with attributes that qualify them to lead us through the difficult challenges we're facing.

Lee Ellis

#22. Money and corruption are ruining the land, crooked politicians betray the working man, pocketing the profits and treating us like sheep, and we're tired of hearing promises that we know they'll never keep.

Ray Davies

#23. I've had a lot of disappointments. I think my biggest disappointment is the failure of elected officials to make good on their promises in regards to the environment or anything else, really. I have very little faith in politicians.

Paul Watson

#24. In order to arrive at what you are not, you must go through the way in which you are not.

T. S. Eliot

#25. Putin had told Yeltsin that he did not like election campaigns, and now he dismissed campaign promises as unachievable lies told by politicians and denigrated television advertisements as unseemly manipulation of gullible consumers.

Steven Lee Myers

#26. Very often my weekends are spent performing on Saturday, on stage in the afternoon and again in the evening.

Simon Callow

#27. I have my pride. I'm a director. I'm not going to go and recreate some other director's vision.

Fede Alvarez

#28. What we strive to restore and re-animate will never come from the promises of the middle class politicians, but will come instead from the spirit of the last Delphic prophecy, which foresaw that, 'One day Apollo will return and it will be forever'.

Guillaume Faye

#29. Neural scientists at M.I.T. say they can plant false memories in your brain. No, that is not new. Politicians have been doing that for years. They're called campaign promises.

Jay Leno

#30. For a person of wrong mental attitude the whole world is wrong and for a person of right mental attitude the same world is a beautiful world.

Deepak Burfiwala

#31. Civilization could not exist until there was written language, because without written language no generation could bequeath to succeeding generations anything but its simpler findings.

Charlton Laird