Politician Quotes - Page 15

I don't think any administration, when they come in, thinks that their job is to tell the scientists what the science looks like or to be quiet about the science. Scientists need to remain true and not allow science to be politicized. Scientists are not politicians, and no politician should consider themselves to be a scientist.

If politicians would think more they would act less.

It's one of the reasons [professional politicians] why people's confidence in the electoral system has declined so much. They have all become shadowy political creatures

Ignore everything a politician says before the word but.

We need to remind politicians they don't work for the big banks - they work for us.

We have politicians that are grossly incompetent. We have leaders that are incompetent and we have negotiators that are incompetent.

All my life I've dealt with politicians. I know politicians better than anybody. And honestly, if you can't deal with a politician, there's something wrong with you.

Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

There's a dance of mutual destruction going on between the media and politicians.

The one thing the police cannot protect us from is a politician like Bill de Blasio.

I am 60, and I am as much an internationalist as when I was younger, when I was a Marxist-Leninist. Internationalism is one of the rare pieces of that heritage to which I remain loyal. That is Barack Obama's strength. A politician has finally understood that politics is not only about the closing of a mine in Ohio-it is also about the will to reach out, to embrace the world of today's young Americans. That way, young Americans may eventually reconcile with politics.

The Olympic Games belong to the athletes and not to the politicians.

The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician's life.

When those who have the opportunity to speak to those politicians they must do so and if one doesn't have that opportunity to speak directly, they can still speak indirectly and it can be heard.

If somebody's gonna stab me in the back, I wanna be there.

I'm only sort of a politician.

I have grown used to the fact that public repentance is the most unacceptable option for the modern politician.

[The politician] is asked to stand, he wants to sit, and he is expected to lie.

Politics, when I am in it, makes me sick.

When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers.

The man who raises new issues has always been distasteful to politicians. He musses up what had been so tidily arranged.

One of the problems in Washington is there are far too many politicians who desperately just want to get re-elected.

American politicians do anything for money... English politicians take the money and won't do anything.

We do have more control over our lives than any politician.

I am not a politician and I have no intention of being one.