Politician Quotes - Page 16

T]he state Republican chairman, Gaylord Parkinson, postulated what he called the Eleventh Commandment: Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican.

He's an honest politician--he stays bought.

We should celebrate more often politicians who stand up and say things that are unpopular.

A politician is a man who can be verbose in fewer words than anyone else.

All politicians, even the most idealistic ones, are looking for money, sucking up to rich people.

I've never been disappointed by politicians. I've never invested that much in them in the first place.

I have all the equipment to be a politician. Total shamelessness.

Politicians don't like empowered individuals.

You mustn't judge a politician by talk. You have to judge them by performance.

The definition of a gaffe is when a politician tells the truth.

Economists often define their discipline as "the allocation of scarce resources among competing ends." But when resources or money really become scarce, economists call it a crisis and say that it's a question for politicians, not their own department.

Wit puts politicians at risk.

People ask me what book politicians should read. They should read the life of Mahatma Gandhi.

We don't have politicians with dignity and morals. We never have, not since [Nelson] Mandela and [Mahatma ] Gandhi. It's really rare.

Politics is the art of making civilization work.

I think celebrity endorsements hurt politicians.

All my trust in the politicians had been rubbed away.

The esthete stands in the same relation to beauty as the pornographer stands to love, and the politician stands to life.

The smaller the government, the less the need to manipulate politicians.

For every alleged benefit that the politicians confer upon us, they must necessarily deprive us of something else.

In politics, as in life, we must above all things wish only for the attainable.

Looking for an honest politician is like looking for an ethical burglar.

They said that I should lose my ideals and begin to believe in the methods of practical politicians. Now, I have not lost my ideals in the least; my faith in fundamentals is exactly what it always was. What I have lost is my childlike faith in practical politics.

All politicians are to some extent salesmen.

A statesman makes the occasion, but the occasion makes the politician.