Politician Quotes - Page 22

I am neither a sociologist nor a politician. All I can do is imagine for myself what the future will be like.

Politicians never keep all their promises.

Nobody has been arrested on Wall Street for the crash of 2008. They're not paying their fair share of the taxes. And now with the Citizens United case of the Supreme Court, they get to buy politicians up out in the open.

A gaffe is a politician inadvertently telling an inconvenient truth.

Every form of anti-Semitism, every form of xenophobia plays on the fear of the unknown, and unfortunately there are all too many politicians who know how to manipulate that. The dumber people are, the more they feel the need for a broad set of shoulders they can lay their head against.

Black Realism or cosmopolitan black politician is a code word to say this is a black person that is not tied to a civil rights/black power traditional black politics.

Politicians generally respond to who is going to help them get elected and re-elected.

Get power but don't admit to it. Do it by stealth. There's a whole trend of Rhodes scholars who will be politicians around the world.

Carry always your earplugs with you in case of emergency, like meeting with a politician!

A politician plus zero is not equal to zero; it is something minus!

Politicians are the close relatives of the Devil.

I'm used to politicians being angry with me, you know, because I don't work for them. I work for my viewers.

At our church I do not endorse politicians publicly. Because I am afraid that if I endorse one candidate, it would keep somebody from coming to our church. So I made one exception one time to put one bumper sticker on my car, but I don't ever do it anymore.

Nothing corrupts a politician quite as much as friendship. Good politicians don't bribe; they make us like them.

The old politician maintain the chair for a lot of decades. So if we will lose the referendum, this is not a problem for me. It's a problem for the new generation of Italians. Because it's a lost opportunity.

Florence for me is not simply a city. Florence is a sentiment. And I think it's impossible to be a politician without sentiment.

Politicians love change, but of details only.

We have souls. Sure we do. Otherwise we'd do bad things all the time. You know, like politicians.

Percentages! Those are for economists, polls, and politicians. Percentages can't define your identity.

Politicians are fond of criticizing others.

I was a celebrity. This is not what I do for a living - politics. I play politicians, as well as working class or clergy or whatever, and you mustn't be confused by what you're seeing on television because that's not who I am. So I always ended it.

I find it surprising, however, that many German politicians generally oppose referendums, but then when it's an EU matter, they immediately scream for a plebiscite.

He [Harry S. Truman] loved politicians - even Republicans.

The IPCC summary for policymakers is used to scare politicians and goad the public into action. The UN is all about politics.

The question is not whether or not there should be a cult of the individual, but rather whether or not the individual concerned represents the truth, if he does then he should be worshiped.