Top 100 The Politician Quotes
#1. Politicians are the lowest form of life on earth. Liberal Democrats are the lowest form of politicians.
George S. Patton
#2. I would not want to be a politician ... Let me tell you this: If I was campaigning, and I go against my opponent and he started attacking my character, and I leap over the table and choke him unconscious, would that help my campaign?
Chuck Norris
#3. The scale of time for a politician runs between one primary and the next, and in Israel, this means two to three years because elections almost never take place once every four years as stipulated by law. The timetable for a system of research is completely different.
Aaron Ciechanover
#4. It is often written that, during his presidency, the General was not a politician. Of course, he was a great politician in large part because he was not perceived as a politician. It
John Ripin Miller
#5. Reelection ought not to be the primary preoccupation of any politician. It ought to be standing up for truth and justice.
Cornel West
#6. I have always liked the Kennedys as politicians. They had such great hair.
Pamela Anderson
#7. All the politics in the world are nothing else but a kind of analysis of the quantity of probability in casual events, and a good politician signifies no more but one who is dexterous at such calculations.
John Arbuthnot
#8. He was arguably the best-qualified FBI director since J. Edgar Hoover; he thought Clinton was the most talented politician since Richard Nixon. That made their mutual contempt all the more tragic. It undermined the FBI and ultimately damaged the United States.
Tim Weiner
#9. When we win, it will tell every politician in America that if you are bold, if you do the right thing, if you tackle the tough issues, there will be people standing there right with you.
Scott Walker
#10. The life of a female politician makes it hard to combine personal life and work, but I think it is almost a patriotic duty to have children.
Marion Marechal-Le Pen
#11. In the end, Ted Kennedy was a politician, plain and simple. Yet he embodied how politics and public service can be successfully intertwined. You can't be a good public servant without being a good politician. Kennedy was both.
Chuck Todd
#12. A successful politician must not only be able to read the mood of the public, he must have the skill to get the public on his side. The public is moved by mood more than logic, by instinct more than reason, and that is something that every politician must make use of or guard against
Jean Chretien
#13. The beauty and riddle in studying the motives of any politician is in trying to decide what is idealism and what is self-interest; and often we are left to conclude that the answer is a mixture of the two.
Boris Johnson
#14. We're in a kind of vicious cycle where the media tell the politicians, and the politicians tell the people, that perception is reality, and the perception of saving dooms a politician. I don't believe perception is reality, or that all Americans think that.
Amity Shlaes
#15. Karl stood up and pointed at the large portraits on the wall. He swept the room from George Washington to Ben Franklin to John Adams to Thomas Jefferson. "Soldier, Printer, Lawyer, Scholar. You become a politician because the people make you one, not because you desire to be one.
Jeff Ferry
#16. The bland politician's smile of someone who knows that the bodies in the car trunk are, indeed, dead.
Douglas Coupland
#17. The politician, Johnson's experience had taught him, could make promises without keeping them; words spoken in public had little relation to the practical conduct of daily life. But whatever justification a politician may claim for deceptions, the statesman must align his words with his action.
Doris Kearns Goodwin
#18. Life and people are complex. A writer as an artist doesn't have the personality of a politician. We don't see the world that simply.
Joyce Carol Oates
#19. Anna Wintour is the most powerful woman in the global fashion industry, the first lady of fashion. She's a politician; I'm a stylist. They are two very different jobs.
Carine Roitfeld
#20. Poetry can change hearts but not the politician's heart.
Marty Rubin
#21. Back in the '50s and '60s, most politicians were concerned about not talking about faith, partly because there were consequences you had to deal with - (for instance) Catholicism had been made an issue.
Barack Obama
#22. In politics, as in womanizing, failure is decisive. It sheds its retrospective gloom on earlier endeavor which at the time seemed full of promise.
Malcolm Muggeridge
#23. Few men could explain why they enlisted, and if they attempted they might only prove that they had done as a politician said the electorate does, the right thing from the wrong motive.
Patrick MacGill
#24. If there were such a thing as Chapter 11 for politicians, the Republican push to extend the unaffordable Bush tax cuts would amount to a bankruptcy filing.
David Stockman
#25. A good politician always knew which way the winds were blowing: a better politician made the weather himself.
John Jackson Miller
#26. If we dump all the machinery and take the knowledge we have in the ocean within six months humanity will die. If we dump all the politician all around the world in the ocean everything will go along very nicely.
R. Buckminster Fuller
#27. In 1977, at least, he wished to have people believe that he shared and was proud of an attitude toward women that is not acceptable in a politician. In 2003, all he has said is that he doesn't remember the interview.
Michael Kinsley
#28. The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.
(Adlai E. Stevenson, 1900-1965, American Lawyer, Politician)
Adlai E. Stevenson II
#29. He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
[On British Labour politician Stafford Cripps.]
Winston S. Churchill
#30. I don't know how much God has to do to get the attention of the politicians
Michele Bachmann
#31. Her gaze settling on Bush International Airport. What is it with politicians anyway, always rushing to put their name on everything? She couldn't think of a single politician who deserved his name on a sewage treatment facility, much less an airport where everyone had to look at it all the time.
D.B. Reynolds
#32. If the article mentions some celebrity-perhaps a recently dead politician-the author will want to mention some pointless detail from her last meeting with that person or the emotions she experienced when learning of the subject's death.
David Brooks
#33. The time is fast coming when politicians will cease to fear the religion of humanity and humanitarians will find entrance into political life indispensable for full service.
Mahatma Gandhi
#34. At the moment I am a little bit politician, yes. I think that could be my next step. It is not because I want power, it is because of what I think I could do for the people.
Haile Gebrselassie
#35. When a politician spends a million on himself, we rally and call him a thief. But when a cardinal spends the same amount on his attire, we kneel down and kiss his hand.
Justin Villanueva
#36. If you're a politician it's very useful to say that we can have economic growth and at the same time green the economy, but writers just have to face up to the fact that there are some fundamental tensions between the economic order and the biological order.
Michael Pollan
#37. The moment you vote, you are a citizen. But moment you make your vote public, you are a politician.
Ben Tolosa
#38. No professional politician is ever actually in favor of public economy. It is his implacable enemy, and he knows it. All professional politicians are dedicated wholeheartedly to waste and corruption. They are the enemies of every decent man.
H.L. Mencken
#39. Power is a drug on which the politicians are hooked. They buy it from the voters, using the voters' own money.
Richard J. Needham
#40. The military spirit makes you obedient, it makes you physically very disciplined; but inwardly your mind is gradually destroyed because you are imitating, following, copying. You become a mere tool of the older people, of the politician, an instrument of propaganda.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#41. Whenever you hear a politician carry on about what a mess the schools are, be aware that you are looking at the culprit.
Molly Ivins
#42. A politician should have three hats. One for throwing into the ring, one for talking through, and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected.
Carl Sandburg
#43. Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.
B.R. Ambedkar
#44. I am looking forward to learning at the knee of Paul Ryan. He doesn't strike me as a politician. He strikes me as an economist.
Todd Rokita
#45. Becoming a politician is the only step down I could take from being a journalist.
Jim Hightower
#46. Give us a man of God's own mould
Born to marshall his fellow-men;
One whose fame is not bought and sold
At the stroke of a politician's pen.
Give us the man of thousands ten,
Fit to do as well as to plan;
Give us a rallying-cry, and then
Abraham Lincoln, give us a Man.
Edmund Clarence Stedman
#47. The importance of fear as a factor in war-making cannot be overlooked, and can hardly be overestimated. Any politician can play on panic when he wishes to stampede a people into war.
Maude Royden
#48. A valuable qualification of a modern politician seems to be a capacity for concealing or explaining away the truth ...
Dorothy Nevill
#49. I suppose it's part of being a good politician to be able to spot the most important men in any group without outside assistance.
Leslie Ford
#50. Fiction writers, magicians, politicians and priests are the only people rewarded for entertaining us with their lies
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#51. 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
#52. Among politicians and businessmen, *Pragmatism* is the current term for 'To hell with our children.'
Edward Abbey
#53. Vote; it's the most important right granted to you as a citizen. But unless you are a politician, stay out of politics because your gains will not change anything and your losses will only make you waste your time and many friendships.
Ben Tolosa
#54. Crafty politician that he is, Obama was smart enough to set low enough standards for his administration to claim 'victory' by the summer of 2011 or so.
Thomas P.M. Barnett
#55. Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos are far more important symbols than any politician today, and they occupy the space that iconic political figures did in earlier eras.
Fareed Zakaria
#56. I think that politics could be a positive thing. My beef is that people focus on the personal aspect of a politician too much. They should focus on the results.
LL Cool J
#57. I see Hillary [Clinton] as a calculating politician without any vision. It depends what the next thing is that they calculate she needs to say.
John Kasich
#58. Tell the politicians and the hustlers: live and let live.
James Brown
#59. The link between my experience as an entrepreneur and that of a politician is all in one word: freedom.
Silvio Berlusconi
#60. The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy; it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups.
Henry Hazlitt
#61. Who ever heard a theologian preface his creed, or a politician conclude his speech with an estimate of the probable error of his opinion?
Bertrand Russell
#62. I am still a socialist. I am a left-of-center politician. I believe that in Africa, if you see the poverty around us, you can't afford to be anything else.
John Dramani Mahama
#63. There is a very close connection between being a doctor and a politician. The doctor tries to prevent illness, then tries to treat it if it comes. It's exactly the same as what you try to do as a politician, but with regard to society.
Gro Harlem Brundtland
#64. Shiny like new zinc holding up a roof or a fence right beside old zinc, the material itself a living history of when last the politician did the ghetto a favor.
Marlon James
#65. One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of responsibility, and a sense of proportion.
Max Weber
#66. The poet and the politician have this in common: their greatness depends on the courage with which they face the challenges of life.
John F. Kennedy
#67. But it is one of the tricks of the successful politician to be able to hold many things in mind at once and to switch between them as the need arises;
Robert Harris
#68. At one time or another, almost every politician needs an honest man so badly that, like a ravenous wolf, he breaks into a sheep-fold: not to devour the ram he has stolen, however, but rather to conceal himself behind its wooly back.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#69. With politicians, artful evasion is always preferable to the outright lie.
Molly Ivins
#71. The rain washed away my pitcher's mound ... I'm a pitcher without a mound ... I'm a lost soul ... I'm like a politician out of office."
"Or a sailor without an ocean ... "
"Or a boy without a girl ...
Charles M. Schulz
#72. Taking care of people is the duty of every politician.
Ewa Kopacz
#73. I don't want to help a politician revise the truth.
Terry Gross
#74. A politician lost an argument; he went on a rampage with his fists pointed towards the sky - a move which amounts to a search for a new self.
Duop Chak Wuol
#75. One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are.
Cal Thomas
#76. Our demand for good looks, expressed in the biting comments that ensue when public figures fall short of perfection, puts enormous pressures on these individuals and may screen out the otherwise qualified. If video killed the radio star, it may also be doing away with the homely politician.
Virginia Postrel
#77. Prime Minister, I see you've already mastered the essential craft of the European politician, namely, the ability to say one thing in this chamber and a very different thing to your home electorate.
Daniel Hannan
#78. That politician who curries favor with the citizens and indulges them and fawns upon them and has a presentiment of their wishes, and is skillful in gratifying them, he is esteemed a great statesman.
Plato
#80. As compared with the college politician, the real article seems like an amateur.
Woodrow Wilson
#81. If you can't afford a movie, go to the zoo. If you can't afford the zoo, go see a politician.
Anonymous
#82. You can't be both a writer and a politician, at least not a good writer. A writer must always tell the truth as he sees it. And the politician must never give the game away.
Gore Vidal
#83. In the very end, civilizations perish because they listen to their politicians and not to their poets.
Jonas Mekas
#84. All religions are equally sublime to the ignorant, useful to the politician, and ridiculous to the philosopher.
Lucretius
#85. When a politician is in opposition he is an expert on the means to some end; and when he is in office he is an expert on the obstacles to it.
G.K. Chesterton
#86. The knock on [Chris] Christie was always the I guy that he was - I felt inordinately talented politician, a smart and in some ways very capable human being, with a personality given toward authoritarianism and bullying and ethical corner-cutting.
Chris Hayes
#87. I've always liked politicians and lawyers. They keep the PR professional's status at least two from the bottom of the ethical food chain.
Shel Israel
#88. When a politician says the debate is over, you can be sure of two things; the debate is raging; and he's losing it.
George Will
#89. I'm not a politician. I'm not a policy wonk. I was a political reporter, but that's not really what turns me on. What turns me on is how people perceive the issue and how people see people like me.
Jose Antonio Vargas
#90. I am not a politician by nature, but I will say I think there need to be more women in FIFA, and I would be open to having those conversations when the time is right.
Abby Wambach
#91. The hack is like a politician who consults the polls before he takes a position. He's a demagogue. He panders.
Steven Pressfield
#92. When we have a corporation, we must know what the customer wants, what the customers needs. Also, the politician must know what the people want, what the people need.
Joko Widodo
#93. American politicians do anything for money ... English politicians take the money and won't do anything.
Stephen Leacock
#94. No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.
Winston Churchill
#95. I learned in grade-school that after WWII European politicians considered sending Jews to Madagascar instead of Palestine. At the time I thought: Madagascar would've been so great.
Jill Soloway
#96. Perhaps it's time to stop analyzing Sarah Palin as a politician. Maybe, in her own muddled way, she is at last owning up to the fact that she has been miscast. You don't need politics anymore once you've discovered that the alchemy of celebrity has turned you into a 24-carat phenomenon.
Tina Brown
#97. The tragedy of one successful politician after another is the gradual substitution of narcissism for an interest in the community and the measures for which he stands.
Bertrand Russell
#98. The politician is ... trained in the art of inexactitude. His words tend to be blunt or rounded, because if they have a cutting edge they may later return to wound him.
Edward R. Murrow
#99. Media populism means appealing to people directly through media. A politician who can master the media can shape political affairs outside of parliament and even eliminate the mediation of parliament.
Umberto Eco
#100. Politics is like a stage. Each politician plays his part according to the lines that are given to him. But backstage, the hero and the villain enjoy their drink together. Everybody
Ashwin Sanghi
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