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Politician Quotes - Page 20

Please tell me you're Republicans.

Please tell me you're Republicans.

Quoted in Wash. Post, 31 Mar. 1981

Now is the time to act or get stuck with a bland, boring, career politician who will lose to Barack Obama.

"Santorum Revives Bush Coalition" by Chris Stirewalt, www.foxnews.com. January 6, 2012.

I sympathize with politicians who have to watch every syllable they utter for fear it will be misused by somebody with an agenda.

"Richard Dawkins is not an accommodationist" by Jerry Coyne, whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com. October 4, 2009.

We talk about politicians being in public life, but they seldom appear in the public space where everyone is free to appear as a citizen.

"Democracy should be exercised regularly, on foot" by Rebecca Solnit, www.theguardian.com. July 5, 2006.

But remember, I am no politician, and no seer into souls.

Rebecca Harding Davis (1904). “Rebecca Harding Davis: Writing Cultural Autobiography”, p.113, Vanderbilt University Press

The politicians, who once stated that war was too complex to be left to the generals, now act as though peace were too complex to be left to themselves.

Pierre Elliott Trudeau (1996). “Against the Current: Selected Writings 1939-1996”, McClelland & Stewart Limited

Few politicians are good at taking the high ground and throwing themselves off it.

1996 Of Tony Blair and the revision of Clause Four. In the New Yorker, 5 Feb.