Politician Quotes

A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.

Howard Dean is not the first politician to distort facts in his own interests. But many activists in the party he now leads are puzzled over what he thinks he is accomplishing politically. Is it good politics to contend that Iraq was better off under Saddam Hussein than even a flawed Islamic republic?

The antagonism between the poet and the politician has generally been evident in all cultures.

The best way to lose weight is to close your mouth - something very difficult for a politician. Or watch your food - just watch it, don't eat it.

A consensus politician is someone who does something that he doesn't believe is right because it keeps people quiet when he does it.

I am not at all a politician. I don't think I'm cut out for politics. I am certainly not going to stand for election.

The career of a politician mainly consists in making one part of the nation do what it does not want to do, in order to please and satisfy the other part of the nation.

Attacks on a politician's identity - questioning Romney's religion, say, or Obama's birthplace - tend to come when an opponent is desperate and can't sell himself.

I'm not a professional politician. I'm a professional problem solver, and I believe we should cut the salaries of senators and congressmen 10 percent until they balance the budget. I call that conservative common sense.

I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher.

To be fair, lying is part and parcel of public life. Every politician has lied about something because they are owned by the special interest groups that finance their elections.

I mean if you have ever found a politician who says, 'No, no, I would do everything exactly as I did,' then you can tell when he is lying because his lips are moving.

Over the years the political establishment has frowned if a mainstream politician mentions marriage.

I answer that question by saying: 'Why Meg Whitman' which is: 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.

When we win, it will tell every politician in America that if you are bold, if you do the right thing, if you tackle the tough issues, there will be people standing there right with you.

People are not in a good mood when any politician's face appears on television.

The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of trouble to imagine an ending to his sentence: and if he stopped short? His entire policy would be jeopardized!

What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence.

A politician ought to be born a foundling and remain a bachelor.

In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws.

First and foremost, when I think of him - I'm prejudiced; I worked for the guy for six and a half years - when I think of him, I think of him first and foremost as an idea politician.

It's a necessary quality of a diplomat or a politician that he will compromise. Uncompromising politicians or diplomats get you into the most terrible trouble.

It is hard for any one to be an honest politician who is not born and bred a Dissenter.

I'm not a politician and my other habits are good.

A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman.

I am no politician.