Politician Quotes

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.

The news of any politician's death should be listed under "Public Improvements."

When I'm not a politician, I'll be dead.

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.

There's no smarter politician out there than Bill Clinton.

The ability to change one's views without losing one's seat is the mark of a great politician.

I was not a politician.

I'm not a politician. And I don't want to be.

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

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.

The link between my experience as an entrepreneur and that of a politician is all in one word: freedom.

I've been trying to keep the private life private. Not being savvy or trained on how to do good interviews like a politician, I thought it was wiser to follow my mother's advice: If you have nothing good to say, don't say anything at all.

No politician is threatened by the child protective constituency, because it does not exist.

I come here not as a polished politician but as a woman who has had her fair share of life's knocks.

It will take some time before a politician will capture the imagination of the American people and have the vision and understanding to do what is necessary for a better future for the people of America and the world.

I am not a politician and I have no intention of being one.

I am not a politician... I only suffer the consequences.

I'm not a minister, I'm not a philosopher, I'm not a politician, I'm in another category.

I am not a politician but I have dedicated the biggest part of my professional life to economic policy both in Greece and Europe.

I am not a professional politician.

Well people often ask me how I felt growing up with a father who was a politician and who was often away. But when I'm asked that question I often reflect on my inability really to be able to answer it in any relative sense because I never grew up with a father doing anything else. So I just have no idea what it would be like otherwise.

A Louisiana politician can't afford to let his animosities carry him away, and still less his principles, although there is seldom difficulty in that department.

I am definitely not a politician.

I am looking forward to learning at the knee of Paul Ryan. He doesn't strike me as a politician. He strikes me as an economist.

Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.

We as voters, have long hoped that we would get a businessman instead of a politician in order to help fix America's problems. Well, I am that businessman.

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

I have to say that when I was young, when any politician was talking I wasn't even interested. Maybe they were saying some nice stuff, but then if you put Michael Jordan on TV, I was interested!

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.