Politician Quotes - Page 10

Being a politician makes your hair turn white.

A politician should not be written off till he or she is cremated.

Politicians make good company for a while just as children do - their self-enjoyment is contagious. But they soon exhaust their favourite subjects - themselves.

Scholars who become politicians are usually assigned the comic role of having to be the good conscience of state policy.

The ability of the 1 percent to buy politicians and regulators is nothing new in American politics - just as inequality has been a permanent part of our economic system. This is true of virtually all political and economic systems.

I believe politicians should always remain realistic.

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

The racist rhetoric from politicians is inspiring people to organize, as more people see what happens by not getting active.

Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

There's the disingenuous duplicitousness, but you can apply that to every politician, really.

Anyone who supposed that when Margaret Thatcher left Number Ten she was going to take a Trappist vow did not know that formidable politician.

The politician has no more use for pride than Falstaff had for honour.

Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

No politician is threatened by the child protective constituency, because it does not exist.

I'm not a politician, I'm not an economist. I'm just a simple Brian surgeon and a scientist who's trying to do my best every day.

As compared with the college politician, the real article seems like an amateur.

The politicians in Washington just had no idea about the complexity of the situation in South Vietnam.

A politician... one that would circumvent God.

Frankly, I'm fed up with politicians in Washington lecturing the rest of us about family values. Our families have values. But our government doesn't.

Politicians are simply reflections of the public.

In general, presidents and congressmen have very limited power to do good for the economy and awesome power to do bad. The best good thing that politicians can do for the economy is to stop doing bad. In part, this can be achieved through reducing taxes and economic regulation, and staying out of our lives.

It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public.

Politicians love power. I love freedom. That is why I am not a politician.

British politicians used to be good at misleading people without actually lying.

Proximity to power has an unsurprising ability to mutate a politician's spinal cord into bright yellow jelly.