Politicians Quotes

If you interviewed 1,000 politicians and asked about whether the media's too soft or too hard, about 999 would say too hard.

Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.

Democrats want to use government power to make people's lives go better; Republicans respond that people know more than politicians do. We think that both might be able to agree that nudging can maintain free markets, and liberty, while also inclining people in good directions.

Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country - and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians.

The choices politicians make must be based on values - not an arbitrary, axe-wielding approach to public spending or a dismal exchange between Gordon Brown and David Cameron about percentages that sounds like an argument between different book-keepers.

Politicians trim and tack in their quest for power, but they do so in order to get the wind of votes in their sails.

I've never been disappointed by politicians. I've never invested that much in them in the first place.

History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions.

As politicians we have to react to the fact that many people do not feel that they can relate to the EU.

It is hard to say why politicians are called servants, unless it is because a good one is hard to find.

The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.

Politicians are masters of the art of deception.

All politicians are to some extent salesmen.

The thing about politicians in Britain is that they are out there, you can lobby them, get close to them, there are loads of ways you can protest against them, and booing is a pretty weak way of doing it.

Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.

It's always the small people who change things. It's never the politicians or the big guys. I mean, who pulled down the Berlin wall? It was all the people in the streets. The specialists didn't have a clue the day before.

What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Politicians in Washington and Madison aren't hearing, aren't listening to their constituents and prioritizing getting people back to work and growing our economy.

I believe politicians should always remain realistic.

The people of New Jersey stepped up. They shared in the sacrifice. You know what else they did? They rewarded politicians who lead instead of politicians who pandered.

Politicians as a class are dangerous, that people who are seeking power over us are not, by definition, our friends.

Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians.

It seems to me that politicians ought to use the same words as other people.

Think of submitting our measure to the advice of politicians! I would as soon submit the subject of the equality of a goose to a fox.

I am not liked as a President by the politicians in office, in the press, or in Congress. But I am content to abide the judgment the sober second thought of the people.

The politicians were talking themselves red, white and blue in the face.

I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.

The public think the politicians don't know or care about their lives; and the politicians feel misunderstood.

We cannot collect enough taxes to catch up with spending. Do I know a solution? Not really. Do your politicians know a solution? Does our commander-in-chief offer a solution? Absolutely not.

Democratic politicians have disliked things I've written, Republican politicians... if they all love you, you might as well be driving a Good Humor truck.