Politician Quotes

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.

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 never intended to be a politician or office-seeker.

I don't think generally politician come from democratic country. I think not that thinking. But sometimes little bit short-sighted. They are mainly looking for their next vote.

I think I should be active politically. Because I look upon myself as a politician. That's not a dirty work you know. Some people think that there are something wrong with politicians. Of course, something wrong with some politicians.

Every person seems to acknowledge his greatness. He blends together the profound politician with the scholar.

America is just the country that how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society.

I've not seen in my lifetime any politician who is a heroic figure. The manipulation that all politicians use on one level or another is so transparent.

One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one.

A gaffe is when a politician tells the truth.

The kind of thing I'm good at is knowing every politician in the state and remembering where he itches. And I know where to scratch him.

Any politician who wants to run for president will come to me in a few years.

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.

But remember, I am no politician, and no seer into souls.

If, however, the success of a politician is to be measured by the degree in which he is able personally to influence the course of politics, and attach to himself a school of political thought, then Mr. Mill, in the best meaning of the words, has succeeded.

Nixon is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump for a speech on conservation.

There are numerous bugbears in the profession of a politician. First, ordinary life suffers. Second, there are many temptations to ruin you and those around you. And I suppose third, and this is rarely discussed, people at the top generally have no friends.

It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

I'm not a professional politician, I'm a problem solver.