Politicians Quotes

Politicians are good listeners. Because if they're not, they aren't politicians for very long.

We shouldn't have politicians micromanaging this war because it is complex and unconventional.

Don't fall in love with politicians, they're all a disappointment. They can't help it, they just are.

The ability of the 1 percent to buy politicians and regulators is nothing new in American politics - just as inequality has been a permanent part of our economic system. This is true of virtually all political and economic systems.

Politicians also have a love affair with the 'small business exemption.' Too much paperwork? Too heavy a burden? Not enough time? Just exempt small businesses from the rule. It sounds so pro-growth. Instead it's an admission that the costs of a regulation just can't be justified.

I think the show does better with newsmakers and politicians than it does with actors.

In those days, the late 1970s, one of the leading politicians was a soon-to-be uncle by marriage of Arnold Schwarzenegger, named Ted Kennedy.

Any debate among politicians about monetary policy is counterproductive.

I feel sorry for many politicians... we expect them to be completely consistent and moralised when we're not.

Nothing panics politicians like $4 a gallon gas.

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Remember in 1973 the same science chatter said that the coming Ice Age is going to occur, we're going to lose millions of people. And the politicians knew how to solve it, they just didn't have the courage to solve it; they were going to put coal dust on the Arctic.

If politicians continue to promote separatism in Australia, they should not continue to hold their seats in this parliament. They are not truly representing all Australians, and I call on the people to throw them out.

Politicians are good at saying how Government must do more, but we must also think carefully about where Government should do less.

People have decided that career politicians may be part of the problem, not part of the solution.

If we meet an honest and intelligent politician, a dozen, a hundred, we say they aren't like politicians at all, and our category of politicians stays unchanged; we know what politicians are like.

I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.

What generally happens in this county is that our politicians don't serve us well because they don't tell the truth, and they don't keep their promises.

The unique thing about our country is that we don't get behind politicians, politicians get behind us.

It's very useful when politicians have doubts because there are so many choices to be made in the world.

We've got to clear some of the room out of the prisons so we can put the bad guys in there, like the pedophiles and the politicians.

Right now we're in the middle of a cultural war between the Muslims and the Western world. The politicians get in the way, but if you put two people together in a room, they can talk it out and work it out, just like Anna and the King.

Politicians like to tell people what they want to hear - and what they want to hear is what won't happen.

We should be wary of politicians who profess to follow history while only noticing those signposts of history that point in the direction which they themselves already favour.

I never wanted to be aligned to a mature group because they go off and become politicians and stuff.

Politicians, like generals, have a tendency to fight the last war.

The majority of the members of the Irish parliament are professional politicians, in the sense that otherwise they would not be given jobs minding mice at crossroads.

Popular culture tells you that schools and parents don't know what's going on, the police are dogs, politicians are all liars and scum, and any crime that's not committed by the Mafia is done by the CIA.

He's suffering from Politicians' Logic. Something must be done, this is something, therefore we must do it.

The biggest problem that we have is that California is being run now by special interests. All of the politicians are not anymore making the moves for the people, but for special interests and we have to stop that.