Politician Quotes - Page 26

Politicians will not put forth programs aimed at the problems of poor blacks while their turnout remains so low.

90% of politicians give the other 10% a bad name.

I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.

Politicians cannot alter trends.

Public service is a part of who I am, having grown up in a family of politicians.

A monetary order created and managed by politicians and officials is bound to disappoint.

No politician is ever benefited by saving money; it is spending it that makes him.

Save among politicians it is no longer necessary for any educated American to profess belief in Thirteenth Century ideas

In a society like ours, politics is improvisation. To the artful dodger rather than the true believer goes the prize.

One of the most fascinating aspects of politician-watching is trying to determine to what extent any politician believes what he says.

If you let Barnum & Bailey interpret a plot by Stendahl, it might come out to be something like the 1972 Democratic convention.

Women are never again going to be mindless coffee-makers or mindless policy-makers in politics.

For fear of the newspapers politicians are dull, and at last they are too dull even for the newspapers.

Every politician is emphatically a promising politician.

I shall never ask, never refuse, nor ever resign an office.

The politician who once had to learn to flatter Kings has now to learn how to fascinate, amuse, coax, humbug, frighten, or otherwise strike the fancy of the electorate.

I'm a politician. I believe that we can change any rule.

When a politician bends the truth or a CEO breaks a promise, trust takes a beating.

Alexei Navalny, the opposition politician who has led anti-corruption protests, had a blog about a credit line to a company owned by Vladimir Putin's son-in-law, $1.75 billion from Russian state funds; this is one transaction. Putin controls more money directly and indirectly than any individual in human history.

I'm a sailor, not a politician.

In middle life politics are not a mental acquisition; they are a temperament.

Rick Scott used let's get to work to say: All these politicians talk; it's time to do. Everybody else talks about the problem; it's time to find the solution.

When you're selling a product or service, you don't have - it doesn't have to be absolutely perfect, although I've provided language that is. When you're a politician, one wrong word changes the entire - changes the meaning of something.

Rome had senators too, and that is why it declined.