Politicians Quotes

The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.

I would just like to say something, ladies and gentlemen. Something that I think is very important. It is that, you, we - we own this country. We - we own it. It is not you owning it, and not politicians owning it. Politicians are employees of ours.

During the 2008 campaign, I strongly endorsed Barack Obama for president. I did so early, when many Democratic leaders - including many prominent African-American politicians - believed the safe bet was to back then-front-runner Hillary Clinton.

There are honest journalists like there are honest politicians - they stay bought.

I want to see far more decisions taken far closer to the patients, the passengers and the pupils. Far more power for locally and regionally elected politicians who understand best the needs of their areas. And far more say too for the dedicated staff at all levels in health and education.

Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

I've seen many politicians paralyzed in the legs as myself, but I've seen more of them who were paralyzed in the head.

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.

The popular tendency is to listen approvingly to the most extreme statements and claims of politicians and orators who seek popularity by declaring their own country right in everything and other countries wrong in everything.

I think most politicians could take a dodgeball in the face.

And I think musicians can better run this state than politicians. And, hell, beauticians can better run the state than politicians.

The only place you see a free market is in the speeches of politicians.

Smoking calms me down. It's enjoyable. I don't want politicians deciding what is exciting in my life.

I think there's a suspicion in the South of people putting on airs. You see it in most successful Southern politicians, but you also see it in someone like Richard Petty, who may be a multimillionaire stock car driver, but he's also beloved because he has a nice self-deprecatory way about him.

Calculating how much carbon is absorbed by which forests and farms is a tricky task, especially when politicians do it.

I will deal with the politicians in a political way and with the nonpoliticians in a nonpolitical way.

God and the politicians willing, the United States can declare peace upon the world, and win it.

The problem is that in our country, they make it almost impossible for politicians to win anything. In England it's easier to win a libel suit.

The recent history of Ukraine is replete with dead journalists, beaten journalists, news agencies being shut down, and politicians being injured or killed. Most are killed in mysterious auto accidents.

We've got to trust the politicians with these decisions.

Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory.

If more politicians in this country were thinking about the next generation instead of the next election, it might be better for the United States and the world.

When people are scared, they need something done that will make them feel safe, even if it doesn't truly make them safer. Politicians naturally want to do something in response to crisis, even if that something doesn't make any sense. But unfortunately for politicians, the security measures that work are largely invisible.

Whatever flaws or personal failings afflict them, it remains the case that the overwhelming majority of priests and politicians are honourable and honest - seeking to live out their beliefs and serve society.

It is essential for politicians to make a connection with us, as Franklin Roosevelt did, as Teddy Roosevelt did, as John F. Kennedy did, as Ronald Reagan did.

I love this country, I love these people, though I can't say I love their politicians. People are always nicer than politicians, but here, you can mark that difference up a hundredfold.

Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

All politicians should have 3 hats - one to throw into the ring, one to talk through, and one to pull rabbits out of if elected.

I reiterate my proposal of creating life sentences for politicians who make deals with organized criminals. They deserve the maximum penalty because a politician that makes deals with criminals - I've said it, and I repeat it - is no longer a politician but just another 'capo.'

It's to be a person who's able to shoot little arrows into sacred cows and knock politicians off their pedestals, to look out for hypocrisy, advocate for all sorts of things from social justice to peace.