Politician Quotes - Page 2

Being a politician is a poor profession. Being a public servant is a noble one.

Kuan Yew, I can never trust you as a politician.

My function in life is not to be a politician in Parliament: it is to get something done.

Arabs may have the oil, but we have the matches.

Preventing war is the work of politicians, establishing peace is the work of educationists.

I am one of a rare breed of true politicians who definitely say what they may or may not mean with absolute certainty.

The desire to be a politician should bar you for life from ever being one.

Freedom is never more in peril than when politicians feel the pressure to 'do something.'

The politician's prayer is: May my words be ever soft and low, for I may have to eat them.

There is nothing that politicians like better than handing out benefits to be paid for by someone else.

If you put your politicians up for sale, as the US does (alone in this among industrialized democracies), then someone will buy them--and it won’t be you; you can’t afford them.

Girls can do anything. We do do anything and we expect to be treated as equals.

Opening our borders to a flood of illegal immigrants is deliberate ... It's time to impeach; and on behalf of American workers and legal immigrants of all backgrounds, we should vehemently oppose any politician on the left or right who would hesitate in voting for articles of impeachment.

The English as a race are not worth saving!

A drop of ink may make a million think.

Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.

There's the occasion when politicians will say things that are simply not true, or that they make commitments that they have no intention of fulfilling. That is something that I think should not happen. That's a no-no. That's a third rail that you shouldn't touch.

I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.

I'm not a politician by profession. I am a citizen who decided I had to be personally involved.

Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.

Is it possible to be anything in this country without being a politician?

When you give politicians the power to do what you think is right you're automatically giving politicians the power to do what you think is wrong.

America has the best politicians money can buy.

Everything we know about human nature and about government tells us that individuals using their own money will achieve far more good for themselves and far more for others than politicians spending money they didn't have to work to earn.

If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be