Politician Quotes

Well people often ask me how I felt growing up with a father who was a politician and who was often away. But when I'm asked that question I often reflect on my inability really to be able to answer it in any relative sense because I never grew up with a father doing anything else. So I just have no idea what it would be like otherwise.

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.

I am definitely not a politician.

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.

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.

We as voters, have long hoped that we would get a businessman instead of a politician in order to help fix America's problems. Well, I am that businessman.

Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.

I have to say that when I was young, when any politician was talking I wasn't even interested. Maybe they were saying some nice stuff, but then if you put Michael Jordan on TV, I was interested!

I am not a politician and I have no intention of being one.

I am not a politician... I only suffer the consequences.

I'm not a minister, I'm not a philosopher, I'm not a politician, I'm in another category.

I am not a politician but I have dedicated the biggest part of my professional life to economic policy both in Greece and Europe.

I am not a professional politician.

An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.

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

The mark of a true politician is that he is never at a loss for words because he is always half-expecting to be asked to make a speech.

I have run large organizations, I know what it takes to create a healthy business climate, and I have more experience than Jerry Brown doing that. So it'll be a stark contrast, a career politician vs. someone who has met a payroll, gotten a return on investment, knows how to use technology to do more with less.

I get no respect. The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I would be honest.

I'm not a politician and don't want any part of politics.

I like photographing the people I love, the people I admire, the famous, and especially the infamous. My last infamous subject was the extreme right wing French politician Jean-Marie Le Pen.

I didn't plan to be a politician. The founder of our country, David Ben-Gurion, called me from the kibbutz to serve in the underground. We were short of manpower, short of arms. I was 24 years old. I was supposed to serve my country for one or two years. I am 89 years old this year, and I keep going.

Where is the politician who has not promised to fight to the death for lower taxes- and who has not proceeded to vote for the very spending projects that make tax cuts impossible?

In Mexico an air conditioner is called a politician because it makes a lot of noise but doesn't work very well.

The chance to be seen as a warm, witty guy is too good an opportunity for a politician to miss.

A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.

Under every stone lurks a politician.

There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten.

Howard Dean has been successful because he was clear in his opposition to the war. People appreciate a politician with the courage to say, I oppose this war.

In my case, I think people are surprised that I'm doing exactly what I said I was going to do when I ran, because that's not the typical politician.

To an intellectual who is adrift in politics, a theory is an aim; to a true politician his theory is a boundary.