Politician Quotes - Page 12

I would say keep supporting space flight, keep telling the public and the politicians why it's important to advance science and explore the galaxy. I encourage the Japanese to keep doing what they're doing.

I never fear famous politicians, never fear the big parties, I only fear the people do not understand.

Personally, I feel that it is the most contemptible thing for a politician to seek personal gains from politics.

I have no baggage in politics. I've never been a politician. I don't owe anybody anything.

Nothing panics politicians like $4 a gallon gas.

The function of the politician, therefore, is one of continuous watchfulness and activity, and he must have intimate knowledge of details if he would work out grand results.

My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised.

Over the years the political establishment has frowned if a mainstream politician mentions marriage.

The question of questions for the politicians should ever be-What type of social structure am I tending to produce? But this is a question he never entertains.

At home, you always have to be a politician; when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman.

There are some politicians who, if their constituents were cannibals, would promise them missionaries in every pot.

Any debate among politicians about monetary policy is counterproductive.

Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians.

I am not a politician.

Like all successful politicians I married above myself.

We should be wary of politicians who profess to follow history while only noticing those signposts of history that point in the direction which they themselves already favour.

My coach was a great politician, so he did most of the work. He was good.

I'm not a politician. And I don't want to be.

There is no visible sign that the current politicians in the US are willing to see the need for change.

There are actually very few US politicians who have integrity and vision.

As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between the Republicans and the Democrats is the Republicans are Socialists and the Democrats are Bolsheviks.

Lawyers are natural politicians.

In the end, Ted Kennedy was a politician, plain and simple. Yet he embodied how politics and public service can be successfully intertwined. You cant be a good public servant without being a good politician. Kennedy was both.

A great politician has great charisma.

The one word that no politician will ever speak, is 'enough.' Enough.