Politician famous quotes
04-23-2025
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A Louisiana politician can't afford to let his animosities carry him away, and still less his principles, although there is seldom difficulty in that department.
-- A. J. Liebling -
If you are a businessman or a politician in Iran, you can get a visa as quickly as you ask for it.
-- Abbas Kiarostami -
The problem with a politician’s quote on Facebook is you don’t know whether or not they really said it.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson -
No politician should ever let himself be photographed in a bathing suit.
-- Adolf Hitler -
Nick plays a corrupt politician, which is kind of a redundant statement.
-- Alan Rudolph -
The thing about politicians in Britain is that they are out there, you can lobby them, get close to them, there are loads of ways you can protest against them, and booing is a pretty weak way of doing it.
-- Alastair Campbell -
I'm a member of the Academy, but I don't know who all the other Academy members are. It's not like a politician who knows who is in the Iowa caucus.
-- Albert Brooks -
When politicians say "I'm in politics," it may or may not be possible to trust them, but when they say, "I'm in public service," you know you should flee.
-- Albert J. Nock -
The nature of oratory is such that there has always been a tendency among politicians and clergymen to oversimplify complex matters. From a pulpit or a platform even the most conscientious of speakers finds it very difficult to tell the whole truth.
-- Aldous Huxley -
I have grown used to the fact that public repentance is the most unacceptable option for the modern politician.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
People hate politicians. And I can understand why.
-- Alexei Navalny -
I feel sorry for many politicians we expect them to be completely consistent and moralised when we're not.
-- Alexei Sayle -
Politicians are good listeners. Because if they're not, they aren't politicians for very long.
-- Andrew Cuomo -
No politician is threatened by the child protective constituency, because it does not exist.
-- Andrew Vachss -
The only people who say worse things about politicians that reporters do are other politicians.
-- Andy Rooney -
The markets want to force us to do certain things. That we won't do. Politicians have to make sure that we're unassailable, that we can make policy for the people.
-- Angela Merkel -
Politicians have to be committed to people in equal measures.
-- Angela Merkel -
As politicians we have to react to the fact that many people do not feel that they can relate to the EU.
-- Angela Merkel -
I am one of a rare breed of true politicians who definitely say what they may or may not mean with absolute certainty.
-- Anthony Eden -
My mother was a politician in my formative years.
-- Antonia Fraser -
My job is to look at what politics is doing, not be a politician myself.
-- Antonio Tabucchi -
Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
-- Aristophanes -
Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.
-- Aristotle -
I am not a politician, and my other habits are good, also.
-- Artemas Ward -
Politics in a democracy is, at the end, an educational process.
-- Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. -
The arts can do more to sustain the peace than all the wars, the armaments, and the threats and warnings of politicians.
-- Arthur Miller -
I look upon myself as a politician. That isn't a dirty word.
-- Aung San Suu Kyi -
The Olympic Games belong to the athletes and not to the politicians.
-- Avery Brundage -
[On going into politics:] My husband went to bed with Debbie Reynolds and he woke up with Eleanor Roosevelt.
-- Barbara Boxer -
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 -
And I think there is too much bloviating around from politicians.
-- Barney Frank -
It seems to me that politicians ought to use the same words as other people.
-- Barney Frank -
While holding the eurozone together will be costly and difficult and painful for the politicians, breaking it up will be even more costly and more difficult,
-- Barry Eichengreen -
My function in life is not to be a politician in Parliament: it is to get something done.
-- Bernadette Devlin -
The politician has no more use for pride than Falstaff had for honour.
-- Bernard Crick -
I'm not a politician, I'm a comedian. I know my limitations.
-- Bernie Mac -
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 -
Politicians who do not use the Bible to guide their public and private lives do not belong in office.
-- Beverly LaHaye -
The politicians are no prizes, but the people are even worse, they're so ill-informed. I never understand the pushback when I say people are stupid.
-- Bill Maher -
There are honest journalists like there are honest politicians - they stay bought.
-- Bill Moyers -
I don't want to associate myself with any specific group of politicians.
-- Bill Nighy -
The politicians of New York...see nothing wrong in the rule, that to the victor belong the spoils of the enemy
-- Bill Vaughan -
I would make a horrible politician, because I wouldn't enjoy my work.
-- Billy Campbell -
The desire to be a politician should bar you for life from ever being one.
-- Billy Connolly -
Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.
-- Bob Marley -
Some newspapers have a hands-off policy on favored politicians. But it's generally very small newspapers or local TV stations.
-- Bob Woodward -
If you interviewed 1,000 politicians and asked about whether the media's too soft or too hard, about 999 would say too hard.
-- Bob Woodward -
A politician must have some scruples, a certain decency; he cannot smear himself in the mud for the sake of a high ideal.
-- Boris Yeltsin -
I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.
-- Carl Lewis -
There's a dance of mutual destruction going on between the media and politicians.
-- Carmen Lawrence -
Politicians are good at saying how Government must do more, but we must also think carefully about where Government should do less.
-- Charles Kennedy -
Once your name becomes well known, politicians come courting.
-- Charley Pride -
Experience to a politician is like experience to a prostitute - not much to recommend them.
-- Charley Reese -
I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.
-- Charlie Chaplin -
I think, any politician, you have to hold them to their word. And conservatives run on fiscal conservatism. .
-- Chris Matthews -
There's a suspicion always about politicians. The suspicion level is really elevated and it just feels like people do not trust their institutions.
-- Christopher Michael Cillizza -
In the end, Ted Kennedy was a politician, plain and simple. Yet he embodied how politics and public service can be successfully intertwined. You cant be a good public servant without being a good politician. Kennedy was both.
-- Chuck Todd -
As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between the Republicans and the Democrats is the Republicans are Socialists and the Democrats are Bolsheviks.
-- Cleveland Amory -
I'm Dan Gelber. As a federal prosecutor, I helped put away corporate criminals, corrupt politicians and violent gangs.
-- Dan Gelber -
In the end, I think part of my problem was that I was a better legislator than I was a politician.
-- Dan Maffei -
Politicians generally do the right thing only when all other options are exhausted.
-- Daniel J. Mitchell -
Every individual should be expressing themselves, whether a politician or a minister or a policeman.
-- Dave Brubeck -
Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians.
-- David Brinkley -
If I was a politician right now I would change just about everything.
-- David Coverdale -
Ive worked as a diplomat before I became a politician.
-- David Cunliffe -
There are actually very few US politicians who have integrity and vision.
-- David Korten -
There is no visible sign that the current politicians in the US are willing to see the need for change.
-- David Korten -
A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman.
-- David Lloyd George -
Politicians are addicted to spending and revenue extraction. As with an addict, there's little pause for moral or legal contemplation.
-- David Malpass -
I am not a politician, and I will never be, and I say that with absolute conviction.
-- David Petraeus -
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 -
Nothing is more dangerous that the politician who uses politics as a surrogate for an unsatisfactory personal life.
-- Denis Healey -
Ever since economists revealed how much universities contribute to economic growth, politicians have paid close attention to higher education.
-- Derek Bok -
The most basic decision a modern politician must make is whether to be aggressive or conciliatory.
-- Dick Morris -
Any politician is to a certain degree a mentor. They preach something.
-- Dmitry Medvedev -
It is not through any combinations of politicians that the outcome of an electoral campaign is decided.
-- Dominique de Villepin -
If Albert Einstein was right, Cal Ripken should have been a CEO or politician rather than a shortstop, because Ripken led by example over and over... and over again.
-- Don Yaeger -
Politicians, like bombers, seldom see their victims.
-- Donald J. Boudreaux -
The most underestimated risk for a politician is overexposure.
-- Donald Rumsfeld -
I've been dealing with politicians all my life. They are all talk, no action.
-- Donald Trump -
All my life I've dealt with politicians. I know politicians better than anybody. And honestly, if you can't deal with a politician, there's something wrong with you.
-- Donald Trump -
Calculating how much carbon is absorbed by which forests and farms is a tricky task, especially when politicians do it.
-- Donella Meadows -
My coach was a great politician, so he did most of the work. He was good.
-- Dorothy Hamill -
A valuable qualification of a modern politician seems to be a capacity for concealing or explaining away the truth ...
-- Dorothy Nevill -
Politicians wanted to mine the Grand Canyon for zinc and copper, and Theodore Roosevelt said, No.
-- Douglas Brinkley -
The only place you see a free market is in the speeches of politicians.
-- Dwayne Andreas -
There's no smarter politician out there than Bill Clinton.
-- Ed Rollins -
I don't subscribe to the theory that all politicians are crap. I think the 'cool people' often take that position.
-- Eddie Izzard -
I believe politicians should always remain realistic.
-- Eduard Shevardnadze -
Some politicians like to kiss babies. I like to kiss the baby's mommas.
-- Edwin Edwards -
A politician weakly and amiably in the right, is no match for a politician tenaciously and pugnaciously in the wrong.
-- Edwin Percy Whipple -
I'm such a failed politician that all of my rivals have disappeared, on both sides.
-- Ehud Barak -
the struggle for the right to become politicians in itself made women into politicians.
-- Eleanor Rathbone -
You know, everybody knows some of what politicians say is malarkey, and having somebody there to call them on it is good. I'd be happy to do that any time and any place.
-- Elizabeth Edwards
