Politician Quotes - Page 14

What I'm doing is exploring things. This is why I'm a fiction writer rather than an essayist or a politician or whatever. I just gather material and find a scenario, and see where it takes me. I don't have a plan.

The duty of a politician for me is to be a representative: a politician is not an expert, experts are experts, hired for their expertise and so on.

Trump is bringing his business acumen to politics. That's something that politicians don't have: business acumen, many of them. And so they don't recognize it, and they don't understand it.

We know Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin as politicians, but they felt that science was something everyone should have a knowledge of.

'Happiness is a Small Politician' - my mantra then and forever more.

You can't exactly bake a man to your specifications. Most of all, one shouldn't alienate a candidate. A hybrid of Einstein, Tarzan and Inge Meysel doesn't exist. Besides, the images of politicians in the media aren't always accurate. I've had my share of experiences in that regard.

A politicians willingness to listen to good advice rises in inverse proportion to how badly he thinks he is doing.

Politicians will always spend every penny of tax raised and whatever else they can get away with.

Donald Trump's not a polished politician like Hillary Clinton.

We're not saying, 'We're politicians, trust us.' We know you don't trust us.

[On Austen Chamberlain:] He is more loyal to his friends than to his convictions.

I could not be leading a religious life unless I identified myself with the whole of mankind, and that I could not do unless I took part in politics.

Be honest. Be honest with yourself, be honest with, you know, your fellow politicians. This is a rare quality of politicians.

He couldn't tell the difference between one politician and another. They were all formlessly enthusiastic chimpanzees to him.

If you ignore the murdering and the conniving, Francis Underwood is an effective politician.

Never look to politicians to solve your problems, they will only create new ones.

With fear of stating the obvious: Freedom belongs to 'We the People,' not 'They the Politicians.'

Barack Obama is one of the greatest politicians in American history.

I know I'd be an absolutely horrendous politician.

I was not a politician.

They wouldn't be politicians if they knew what they were doing.

I learned in grade-school that after WWII European politicians considered sending Jews to Madagascar instead of Palestine. At the time I thought: Madagascar would've been so great.

I’ve always been interested in leaders and rule breakers and artists and politicians.

I will not resolve a land dispute if civil groups or politicians are involved in the land disputes.

Sometimes it is my impression that most politicians are still not aware of being under the control of the financial markets and are even governed by them.