Politicians Quotes

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers.

I have three favorite politicians: Reagan, Truman, and Bobby Kennedy - Bobby for showing remarkable political courage despite being loathed by many on both sides.

Advertising men and politicians are dangerous if they are separated. Together they are diabolical.

The mistake a lot of politicians make is in forgetting they've been appointed and thinking they've been anointed.

I do a lot of reading of news so I can be smarter, and I do a lot of watching TV news so I can know why Americans aren't very smart. Then I can point out the hypocrisy of politicians or the media.

Politicians will not put forth programs aimed at the problems of poor blacks while their turnout remains so low.

It's a necessary quality of a diplomat or a politician that he will compromise. Uncompromising politicians or diplomats get you into the most terrible trouble.

There are, believe it or not, good politicians.

We have got to make sure there is proper independent scrutiny and accountability for people in the press, just as there should be in any other industry where things go wrong. But let's not try and think it is for politicians or governments to tell people what they stick in newspapers. That is deeply illiberal.

The reason there are so few female politicians is that it is too much trouble to put makeup on two faces.

The politicians in this world... have at their command weapons of mass destruction far more complex than their own thinking processes.

I get the feeling a lot of politicians are there to help themselves financially, first and foremost. I don't really need to do that, and I thought if I could do something for sport in Scotland, that would be really fulfilling.

Most politicians, when they meet with a guy like me, or a guy like Carville, tell you about how they can win.

I don't want to clip on the armour every morning. I've seen some politicians do this and they get a bit mangled and bitter. I just refuse to do that. I refuse to be angry or bitter or complain, and I remain open. I may sometimes be a bit too open but I'm not going to change that one bit.

Rock helps me communicate directly with the people because rock doesn't lie, and people are fed up with lying politicians.

Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote.

Like its politicians and its war, society has the teenagers it deserves.

Politicians often lie.

Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.

Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.

We shouldn't require our politicians to be movie stars. Then again, we're all influenced by charisma. It's hard not to be. We all collectively fall for it.

It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.

The War on Drugs employs millions - politicians, bureaucrats, policemen, and now the military - that probably couldn't find a place for their dubious talents in a free market, unless they were to sell pencils from a tin cup on street corners.

People aren't as stupid as the politicians think. More and more of us are laughing off our 'civic duty' to vote, rejecting the role of compulsory constituent.

There's a great public disinclination toward politicians.

Democracy no longer works for the poor if politicians treat them as a separate race.

Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government.

There were two mentalities, and both mentalities had to change. There was what I called the Afrikaner mind set of the Unionist politicians, which was holding all power in their own hands, and discriminating, and their objective was to protect their identity.

Ensuring a bright future for all our children is the responsibility of the community, the schools, families and like it or not- politicians as well.

It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man's interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.