Politician Quotes

I have a more direct avenue to expression as an artist than I ever would as a politician.

Bill Bradley is a serious politician and if Al Gore stumbles seriously, then Bradley is there to take advantage of that.

The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.

I've never wanted to become a politician, an interior decorator, I've never wanted to speculate and make a load of money. I just wanted this.

One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are.

Nick plays a corrupt politician, which is kind of a redundant statement.

Well, I couldn't do the day-to-day stuff of being a politician or anything, but I just think everybody should have an opinion and everybody should vote, and that's what we're built on.

If you call your opponent a politician, it's grounds for libel.

In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.

Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be.

The first black president will be a politician who is black.

It's always an interesting experience for a politician to be heard in silence, I have to say.

The function of the politician, therefore, is one of continuous watchfulness and activity, and he must have intimate knowledge of details if he would work out grand results.

A politician is a man who will double cross that bridge when he comes to it.

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.

It's the way the business works, you're not just an actor, you're a diplomat and a publicist and a politician, and there are certain expectations.

Few men could explain why they enlisted, and if they attempted they might only prove that they had done as a politician said the electorate does, the right thing from the wrong motive.

The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision.

I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.

I may not be the world's best glad-handing politician, but I've been elected mayor twice. I understand politics. And I definitely understand where the state line is.

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.

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.