Politician Quotes - Page 11

No British politician has ever been more despised by the British people than Margaret Thatcher.

Business is a useful tool in politics, but it's not enough. You need much more than to be a good businessman, to be a good politician.

The politicians in Washington are spending trillions of dollars of our money. When are Americans going to stand up and say enough is enough?

I am a sportsman and not a politician. I am a sportsman and will always remain one. I am not going to enter politics giving up cricket, which is my life. I will continue to play cricket.

I don't really want to hang out with politicians. I'd rather go straight to hell, and not collect $200.

The relationship between press and politician - protected by the Constitution and designed to be happily adversarial - becomes sour, raw and confrontational.

I did not deal well with the politicians. I tend to tell people that when they are full of crap, that they are full of crap.

Nobody is a friend of ours. Let's face it.

The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up.

Power is a drug on which the politicians are hooked. They buy it from the voters, using the voters' own money.

You got to stop asking your politicians how they are going to do this or that...

I beg the Lord to grant us more politicians who are genuinely disturbed by the state of society, the people, the lives of the poor!

I have moved on from being a British parliamentarian, I have moved on from being a New Labour politician, I have moved on from being the supporter in the active day-to-day sense of Tony Blair.

A statesman's words, like butcher's meat, should be well weighed.

People do not want politicians they know to be corrupt.

Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

Whether elected or appointed he considers himself the Lord's anointed, and indeed the ointment lingers on him so thick you can't get your fingers on him.

I'm not a politician. I'd make a lousy politician.

Where do politicians come from? Why, they come from Uranus!

In politics, an absurdity in public business is going into it.

My life's work has been accomplished. I did all that I could.

Our relationship with Israel is another reason we're being attacked. But an American politician - whether Muslim or not - who criticizes Israel as a martyrdom operation in American politics cannot survive as an official or as a politician.

Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

Those who imagine that a politician would make a better figurehead than a hereditary monarch might perhaps make the acquaintance of more politicians.

Actors, politicians, and writers-all of us are but creatures of the hour. Long-lasting fame comes to but few.