Politician Quotes - Page 13

When I'm not a politician, I'll be dead.

[On going into politics:] My husband went to bed with Debbie Reynolds and he woke up with Eleanor Roosevelt.

As an advisor, I can say what I want. If I were a politician, I would constantly have to compromise, and I'm incapable of doing that.

A politician is like quicksilver: if you try to put your finger on him, you find nothing under it.

Public opinion is the pennant on a nation's mast which shows the politician and the editor how to trim the sails.

There's something inherently comic about the fact that politicians make things worse by worrying too much about something.

My mother was a politician in my formative years.

It has been the great fault of our politicians that they have all wanted to do something.

Politicians have to be committed to people in equal measures.

It's not just politicians who underestimate us; we underestimate ourselves.

I feel sorry for many politicians we expect them to be completely consistent and moralised when we're not.

People hate politicians. And I can understand why.

The nature of oratory is such that there has always been a tendency among politicians and clergymen to oversimplify complex matters. From a pulpit or a platform even the most conscientious of speakers finds it very difficult to tell the whole truth.

The thing about politicians in Britain is that they are out there, you can lobby them, get close to them, there are loads of ways you can protest against them, and booing is a pretty weak way of doing it.

Nick plays a corrupt politician, which is kind of a redundant statement.

A house divided cannot stand for long. That goes for politicians and the rest of us.

Why, look you, I am whipp'd and scourg'd with rods, Nettled and stung with pismires[nettles], when I hear Of this vile politician, Bolingbroke.

Politicians are just a bunch of local bandits, sent by their local voters to raid the public treasury.

Politics is too important to be left to politicians.

The real question is "Why should we make an exception for billionaire politicians?". We should not.

To me, being funny is more important than making a point, but I don't know. Most politicians are so interested in making points that they don't ... I'd rather be funny myself, and I'd rather listen to somebody with a little sense of humor.

I am looking forward to learning at the knee of Paul Ryan. He doesn't strike me as a politician. He strikes me as an economist.

A statesman is a successful politician who is dead.

I think there is a break down of trust generally, between people and politicians. I think that's come about for a whole variety of reasons.

The camera is a natural attraction for a politician. And if a camera is here, we're going to be here. And we're going to say something, even if we have nothing to say.