Politician Quotes

Where is the politician who has not promised to fight to the death for lower taxes- and who has not proceeded to vote for the very spending projects that make tax cuts impossible?

In Mexico an air conditioner is called a politician because it makes a lot of noise but doesn't work very well.

The chance to be seen as a warm, witty guy is too good an opportunity for a politician to miss.

A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.

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.

There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten.

Howard Dean has been successful because he was clear in his opposition to the war. People appreciate a politician with the courage to say, I oppose this war.

An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.

A politician is the devil's quilted anvil; He fashions all sins on him, and the blows are never heard.

The mark of a true politician is that he is never at a loss for words because he is always half-expecting to be asked to make a speech.

I have run large organizations, I know what it takes to create a healthy business climate, and I have more experience than Jerry Brown doing that. So it'll be a stark contrast, a career politician vs. someone who has met a payroll, gotten a return on investment, knows how to use technology to do more with less.

The statesman shears the sheep; the politician skins them.

You know that a given in life in human nature, is that at a sporting event, a baseball game, a football game, you never introduce a politician, is because he'll be booed. I don't care if he's the most beloved person in the world, its part of the game.

I think that politics could be a positive thing. My beef is that people focus on the personal aspect of a politician too much. They should focus on the results.

If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.

It defies all common sense to send that roughneck ward politician back to the White House.

I am not a politician.

I'm an actor, I'm not a politician.

A woman must combine the role of mother, wife and politician.

I suspect I'm the only politician in America who won an election in this last cycle with TV ads saying I was going to try to pass the first single-payer system in America.

It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.

There is no patriotic obligation to help advance the career of a politician who is otherwise pursuing interests that are fundamentally antithetical to your values. That's not the call of patriotism.

Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.

To an intellectual who is adrift in politics, a theory is an aim; to a true politician his theory is a boundary.

A politician will do anything to keep his job - even become a patriot.

Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country? If you are the first, then you are a parasite; if the second, then you are an oasis in the desert.

Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.

I'm not a politician.

I never thought about becoming a politician. But during the military dictatorship, my grandfather was put in prison six times and my father twice. If my family and my country didn't have this history, I might be a professor somewhere today.

A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.