Politician Quotes
What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence.
George Byron
In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws.
Emile M. Cioran
First and foremost, when I think of him - I'm prejudiced; I worked for the guy for six and a half years - when I think of him, I think of him first and foremost as an idea politician.
John Podesta
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.
John Keegan
It is hard for any one to be an honest politician who is not born and bred a Dissenter.
William Hazlitt
A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman.
David Lloyd George
Over the years the political establishment has frowned if a mainstream politician mentions marriage.
Iain Duncan Smith
I answer that question by saying: 'Why Meg Whitman' which is: 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.
Meg Whitman
When we win, it will tell every politician in America that if you are bold, if you do the right thing, if you tackle the tough issues, there will be people standing there right with you.
Scott Walker
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!
Roland Barthes
I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.
Carl Lewis
We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician.
Felix Frankfurter
I am neither a sociologist nor a politician. All I can do is imagine for myself what the future will be like.
Michelangelo Antonioni
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.
Lukas Foss
One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of responsibility, and a sense of proportion.
Max Weber
Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
Charles de Gaulle
Black men of integrity cannot make a deal with a politician and leave out the poor of the nation, all God's children.
Jesse Jackson
The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.
Henry Bolingbroke
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.
Jon Bon Jovi
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.
Ellen DeGeneres