Politician Quotes

The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of trouble to imagine an ending to his sentence: and if he stopped short? His entire policy would be jeopardized!

I'm glad I'm not a politician.

I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.

We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician.

I am neither a sociologist nor a politician. All I can do is imagine for myself what the future will be like.

Personality is essential. It is in every work of art. When someone walks on stage for a performance and has charisma, everyone is convinced that he has personality. I find that charisma is merely a form of showmanship. Movie stars usually have it. A politician has to have it.

Bush doesn't present himself as a realpolitik politician.

One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of responsibility, and a sense of proportion.

Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.

A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country.

Black men of integrity cannot make a deal with a politician and leave out the poor of the nation, all God's children.

The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.

What drew me to politics in the first place was the fact that I wanted to have a place to take a stand and use my voice to express what I believed in. But I've no longer got any political aspirations. I feel that as a politician, fifty per cent of people would hate you before you even left the house.

I think anybody who wants to be president has to be a politician, but I would like to find somebody who's coming from a loving place instead of a political place.

No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.

I'm not a politician. I'm not a lawyer. I'm just a country boy.

I'll see Naomi Wolf on television periodically, I have nothing against her and what she says, but I'll feel that she's a politician, like she's got an agenda to get across and that she doesn't always say what's really true or exactly what she feels.

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.

I think when you've been a career politician for 34 years you have to run on your record.

I enjoyed the administrative work because it involved working with Congress, city council, and the mayor. I had never been a politician so it was fun - learning political maneuvering.

Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong.

You know, a statesman is a dead politician.

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.

You can gain in your effectiveness as a politician from a wide acquaintance with the world and from a degree of independence that having some outside interests gives.

A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.

You are more committed to things that you give money to - whether it is a church or a politician.

Cindy Sheehan is a clown. There is no real antiwar movement. No serious politician, with anything to do with anything, would show his face at an antiwar rally.

The wealth of the country, its capital, its credit, must be saved from the predatory poor as well as the predatory rich, but above all from the predatory politician.

The first black president will be a politician who is black.

The function of the politician, therefore, is one of continuous watchfulness and activity, and he must have intimate knowledge of details if he would work out grand results.