Politician Quotes
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Take our politicians: they're a bunch of yo-yos. The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a high school debate, with an encyclopedia of cliches.
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The average politician was crooked. That was my ambition, to be a crooked politician. I'd see them in these restaurants, and they'd all hold these conferences. I'd see politicians who were supposed to be on opposite sides of issues all together at one table.
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I learned in grade-school that after WWII European politicians considered sending Jews to Madagascar instead of Palestine. At the time I thought: Madagascar would've been so great.
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Rude interviewers are ten a penny, and politicians have long since learned how to cope.
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When I'm not a politician, I'll be dead.
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It was fascinating what a total interest he [John F. Kennedy] had in his tradecraft of being a politician. I didn't realize before that he was working on his memoirs all along, how he ran for Congress, that sort of thing.
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I have never declared myself an Indigenous politician; I am not an Indigenous Chief Minister.
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I'm a comedian, not a politician.
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If you are a businessman or a politician in Iran, you can get a visa as quickly as you ask for it.
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A politician... one that would circumvent God.
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The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed.
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The whole reason we organize grassroots is, we think any politician that gets elected needs to be held accountable 365 days a year.
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I realise that, strutting around in power corridors for political coverage, a journalist becomes half a politician.
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I think politicians get hamstrung by the nature of politics when the private sector can really do great things.
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The short memories of the American voters is what keeps our politicians in office.
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I'm not sure I am a politician. I would say that I am still an artist, and I'm trying to use politics as an instrument for change.
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The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction.
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I'm not a politician and don't want any part of politics.
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Society and the system and politicians don't want people to be aware of things. They want people to believe what they have to show 'em.
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My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician. To tell the truth, there's hardly a difference.
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The main mark of modern governments is that we do not know who governs, de facto any more than de jure. We see the politician and not his backer; still less the backer of the backer; or, what is most important of all, the banker of the backer.
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The politicians of New York as not so fastidious as some gentlemen are, as to disclosing the principles on which they act. They boldly preach what they practice...if they are defeated, they expect to retire from office. If they are successful, they claim, as a matter of right, the advantages of success. They see nothing wrong in the rule that to the victor belongs the spoils of the enemy.
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Back in the '50s and '60s, most politicians were concerned about not talking about faith, partly because there were consequences you had to deal with - (for instance) Catholicism had been made an issue.
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This national argument is usually interpreted as a battle between imperialists led by Roosevelt and Lodge and anti-imperialists led by William Jennings Bryan and Carl Schurz. It is far more accurate and illuminating however, to view it as a three-cornered fight. The third group was a coalition of businessmen, intellectuals, and politicians who opposed traditional colonialism and advocated instead a policy of an open door through which America's preponderant economic strength would enter and dominate all underdeveloped areas of the world.
