Politicians Quotes

With attention deficit democracy, I am trying to wake up people to how the combination of mass ignorance, fear mongering by the government, and lying politicians is putting our entire system of government to a death spiral.

The whole world loves American movies, blue jeans, jazz and rock and roll. It is probably a better way to get to know our country than by what politicians or airline commercials represent.

I would like to be a part of a community of women, and help women be empowered, but I think I'm not necessarily political. I say that because I really hate politicians, so I don't fancy sitting around and thinking about them all the time.

Over and over, we hear politicians say they can't spend our tax dollars on environmental protection when the economy is so fragile.

There is a whole school of Canadian academics, media personalities, and politicians whose definition of a Canadian is a North American who fears or dislikes the United States.

In America, politicians do whatever to get re-elected, and a lot of decisions that were being made at that time by Kennedy were certain not to get him re-elected.

It is kind of tedious after a while, to parse politicians doing the same thing over and over again. The facts change from week to week, but the sort of masquerade doesn't.

Wherever you turn, there is always something wrong with the politicians. They have everything they need to save the world, and they don't save it.

After believing in promises made and never fulfilled by Labour, people have become increasingly disenchanted with the process assuming that all politicians will say anything to gain power, and then never follow through.

You know, the media and politicians are always gonna be in a bit of tension with one another and probably most of the time that's healthy and indeed even creative. But it's where - it's really when news organisations are used as kind of instruments of politics that it gets tricky.

There is no such thing as several Romanias, but only politicians who divide Romania depending on the interests of their parties and their clout.

I'm in England so often I haven't really left, but Americans aren't at all like they're misrepresented through their politicians.

Both politicians and journalists face situations which strain their honesty and humanity. My opinion is that politicians on the average stand up somewhat better than journalists.

There are dumb actors. But there are dumb politicians and dumb bakers.

Politicians have limited power. They can't impose morality on themselves. How can they impose it on the country?

A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump off the Godfather for not going to church on Sunday.

Politicians all too often think about the next election. Statesmen think about the next generation.

People do not want politicians they know to be corrupt.

It does no harm just once in a while to acknowledge that the whole country isn't in flames, that there are people in the country besides politicians, entertainers, and criminals.

The Women of the Storm made a big difference for me, because it really put some real-life faces with the situation, and not just politicians.

Certainly, it seems true enough that there's a good deal of irony in the world... I mean, if you live in a world full of politicians and advertising, there's obviously a lot of deception.

Politicians who wear little tennis socks with the balls at the back should not be taken seriously.

Once your name becomes well known, politicians come courting.

I don't need politicians doing a 24-hour prayer with Oral Roberts to get our country back on track.

Somehow politicians have become convinced that negative campaigning pays off in elections.

I think people are tired of politicians trying to poke each other in the eye.

At least the politicians are accountable to the voters.

Justices are not politicians. They don't run on a political platform, and senators should not ask them to do so.

I think you will find scientists that think like you in Germany and Britain, and you will find politicians that think like Weinberger. I think the most bellicose ruling group in the Western world at the moment is the British.

Politicians are there to try to deal with stuff, but sometimes it's both fortunate and unfortunate that people like us have more... not involvement, but more power in the stuff that we say.