Politician Quotes - Page 23

A politician before he can become a statesman has to remain in office long enough.

If [politician] is not fulfilling his function, they then can set up the machinery to remove him from that position by whatever means necessary.

I refer to a negro politician as a negro who is selected by Negroes and who is backed by Negroes.

The time is fast coming when politicians will cease to fear the religion of humanity and humanitarians will find entrance into political life indispensable for full service.

It is the future, of course, which politicians grapple with, and that is why politics is so disorderly. Only history clears away some of the debris.

Several things about Reagan are unusual in a public man. He was not a typical politician at all, but a private man in public life.

The politician is the creature of the public sentiment -- never goes ahead of it because he depends on it . . .

I am not a politician but I have dedicated the biggest part of my professional life to economic policy both in Greece and Europe.

politics were as bad as mathematics, and that the mission of politicians seemed to be calling each other names

Fanaticism displays itself in the masses; but the masses were rarely fanaticised; and the crimes ascribed to it were commonly due to the calculations of dispassionate politicians.

I think politicians do great things in the world, but I don't think they're the only ones who can. I don't like all the rhetoric and the finger pointing.

As long as there is no control of population, the population explosion will make it so easy for politicians to dominate.

American Hustle shows the FBI making real-life bribes to Washington politicians. I know, because as your U.S. senator, I turned them down.

Invite politicians to dinner and let them tell the world how delicious it is. . . . They will proudly go around and say, 'I ate crickets, I ate locusts, and they were delicious.'

The upside of being in the closet is that you develop skills of duplicity, which are great for big-time politicians.

Canadians know that our difficulties will not be resolved overnight. They are tired of politicians who pretend they will be.

I'm fascinated by politicians, because I suspect the huge majority of them go into it full of ideas and for the best possible reasons but end up being hijacked.

In America, politicians do whatever to get re-elected, and a lot of decisions that were being made at that time by Kennedy were certain not to get him re-elected.

Donald Trump is sort of the first candidate of his type that non-politician, true outsider, was coming to shake up the system.

He was born a politician. No, Ursula thought, he was born a baby, like everyone else. And this is what he has chosen to become.

My sense of American politics is that most of our politicians are for sale, whether they are out and out crooked, or simply beholden to corporate interests because they've taken so much money from their lobbyists.

Politicians have available a very nice EAP [employee assistance program]. There are psychological services available. All they have to do is pick up a phone. All the parties encourage them to do that. There are very few politicians who, once they're elected, take the time to rest and recover, whether you look at John Tory's schedule or Kathleen Wynne.

We shouldn't require our politicians to be movie stars. Then again, we're all influenced by charisma. It's hard not to be. We all collectively fall for it.

Americans tend not to be too enthusiastic about having their taxes raised again....But if the American people aren't going to accept it, if the politicians don't have the courage to raise taxes, what are we facing down the road?

I generally think that Hillary Clinton is a good egg and a good politician.