Politician Quotes

My job is to look at what politics is doing, not be a politician myself.

I've learned in my years as a journalist that when a politician says 'That's ridiculous' you're probably on the right track.

You slam a politician, you make out he's the devil, with horns and hoofs. But his wife loves him, and so did all his mistresses.

When I was growing up in the United States and Sweden, I never thought about becoming a politician.

Hip-hop has done so much for racial relations, and I don't think it's given the proper credit. It has changed America immensely. I'm going to make a very bold statement: Hip-hop has done more than any leader, politician, or anyone to improve race relations.

I think it has sullied his presidency. As brilliant a politician as Bill Clinton is, as magnetic a personality as he can be, there is one little screw loose somewhere.

I have never wanted to be a politician, and I never had the desire until recently.

I'm not just a politician, I'm a guy who has a real deep, substantive, commitment to education.

I am a huge admirer of Franklin Roosevelt's, and I believe social security has done untold good in alleviating the once-widespread issue of poverty among the elderly. FDR believed in the greatness and generosity of Americans - but he was also a cold-blooded politician.

I won't eat anything that has intelligent life, but I'd gladly eat a network executive or a politician.

A politician's goal is always to manipulate public debate. I think there are some politicians with higher goals. But all of them get corrupted by power.

There's no smarter politician out there than Bill Clinton.

The ability to change one's views without losing one's seat is the mark of a great politician.

I was not a politician.

I'm not a politician. And I don't want to be.

My own electorate, which I represented for 36 years as an anti-apartheid politician, had a considerable number of Jewish voters supporting me throughout my career.

I'm not a career politician. I spent 30 years in business. I can tell you that people in California have had it with career politicians: they are done.

The link between my experience as an entrepreneur and that of a politician is all in one word: freedom.

I've been trying to keep the private life private. Not being savvy or trained on how to do good interviews like a politician, I thought it was wiser to follow my mother's advice: If you have nothing good to say, don't say anything at all.

No politician is threatened by the child protective constituency, because it does not exist.

I come here not as a polished politician but as a woman who has had her fair share of life's knocks.

It will take some time before a politician will capture the imagination of the American people and have the vision and understanding to do what is necessary for a better future for the people of America and the world.

Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor.

The news of any politician's death should be listed under "Public Improvements."

When I'm not a politician, I'll be dead.

President Obama is the kind of politician who puts promises on the record, and then calls that the record. But we are four years into this presidency.The issue is not the economy as Barack Obama inherited it, not the economy as he envisions it, but this economy as we are living it.