Politician Quotes

Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong.

You know, a statesman is a dead politician.

Prime Minister, I see you've already mastered the essential craft of the European politician, namely, the ability to say one thing in this chamber and a very different thing to your home electorate.

You can gain in your effectiveness as a politician from a wide acquaintance with the world and from a degree of independence that having some outside interests gives.

A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.

You are more committed to things that you give money to - whether it is a church or a politician.

Cindy Sheehan is a clown. There is no real antiwar movement. No serious politician, with anything to do with anything, would show his face at an antiwar rally.

Several things about Reagan are unusual in a public man. He was not a typical politician at all, but a private man in public life.

The wealth of the country, its capital, its credit, must be saved from the predatory poor as well as the predatory rich, but above all from the predatory politician.

I'm not a politician. I'm not a lawyer. I'm just a country boy.

I'll see Naomi Wolf on television periodically, I have nothing against her and what she says, but I'll feel that she's a politician, like she's got an agenda to get across and that she doesn't always say what's really true or exactly what she feels.

Life and people are complex. A writer as an artist doesn't have the personality of a politician. We don't see the world that simply.

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

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.

I don't want to be a politician. I don't like politics. It's petty; it fights dirty.

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.

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.

If we meet an honest and intelligent politician, a dozen, a hundred, we say they aren't like politicians at all, and our category of politicians stays unchanged; we know what politicians are like.

I rarely meet a politician that I don't like personally. They are generally well endowed with charm. Therein lies the danger.

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.