Politician Quotes

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It's better to have died a small child than to be a politician who gets caught in a scandal during a slow news month.

I am an educationist. I'm an economist. I am a politician. I am also now a good storyteller, you know?

Politicians are not born; they are excreted.

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.

We are not politicians. We made our revolution to get the politicians out.

If you cannot convince a Fascist, acquaint his head with the pavement.

Men must be aggressive for what is right if government is to be saved from men who are aggressive for what is wrong.

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

All the media and the politicians ever talk about is things that separate us, things that make us different from one another

An Honest politician will not be tolerated by a democracy unless he is very stupid ... because only a very stupid man can honestly share the prejudices of more than half the nation.

I shall be a good politician. Even if it kills me. Or if it kills anyone else, for that matter.

A statesman is he who thinks in the future generations, and a politician is he who thinks in the upcoming elections.

Cheap cigars come in handy; they stifle the odor of cheap politicians.

Some politician some years ago said that bad officials are elected by good voters who do not vote.

Any politician who can be elected only by turning Americans against other Americans is too dangerous to be elected.

It's not enough for an official to be good. There has to be a system that forces them to be good.

I was always a politician from the day the civil rights people chose me as their protest singer.

In Mexico an air conditioner is called a politician because it makes a lot of noise but doesn't work very well.

It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.

A politician complaining about the media is like a sailor complaining about the sea.

Few men could explain why they enlisted, and if they attempted they might only prove that they had done as a politician said the electorate does, the right thing from the wrong motive.

Politicians are like bad horsemen who are so preoccupied with staying in the saddle that they can't bother about where they're going.

I remain just one thing, and one thing only - and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.

I won't eat anything that has intelligent life, but I'd gladly eat a network executive or a politician.

My own electorate, which I represented for 36 years as an anti-apartheid politician, had a considerable number of Jewish voters supporting me throughout my career.

It is not defeat that destroys you,it is being demoralized by defeat that destroy you.

You politicians remain professional because the voters remain amateur.

In business, people are held accountable. In Washington, nobody is held accountable. In business, people are judged on results. In Washington, people are measured by their ability to get reelected.

As a politician who cherishes religious conviction in his personal sphere, but regards politics as a domain belonging outside religion, I believe that this view is seriously flawed.

God was executed by people painfully like us, in a society very similar to our own ... by a corrupt church, a timid politician, and a fickle proletariat led by professional agitators.

The wisdom of hindsight, so useful to historians and indeed to authors of memoirs, is sadly denied to practicing politicians.

As many languages you know, as many times you are a human being

The mark of a true politician is that he is never at a loss for words because he is always half-expecting to be asked to make a speech.

If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.

I know I'm not a showy politician... I don't go drinking in parliament's bars. I don't wear my heart on my sleeve, I just get on with the job in front of me and you can judge me by my record.

Political questions are far too serious to be left to the politicians.

The wealth of the country, its capital, its credit, must be saved from the predatory poor as well as the predatory rich, but above all from the predatory politician.

When politicians presume to do God's work, they do not become divine but diabolical.

Whenever you hear a politician carry on about what a mess the schools are, be aware that you are looking at the culprit.

Being a politician is a poor profession. Being a public servant is a noble one.

Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be so much more powerful than he could ever be.

Kuan Yew, I can never trust you as a politician.

The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.

My function in life is not to be a politician in Parliament: it is to get something done.

Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a politician who has lost his job, save only a retired stud-horse.

Let me be clear - no one is above the law. Not a politician, not a priest, not a criminal, not a police officer. We are all accountable for our actions.

You show me a politician with his heels ten feet in the air, and by Judas priest, Ill show you an honest politician.

I am one of a rare breed of true politicians who definitely say what they may or may not mean with absolute certainty.

Arabs may have the oil, but we have the matches.

Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.