Politician Quotes - Page 29

Politicians are good at saying how Government must do more, but we must also think carefully about where Government should do less.

We need to continuously put pressure on politicians to do more, because they are happy just to do nothing—it’s easier to do nothing.

My favorite politician was Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater, who reminded me of Tom Mix, and there wasn't any way to explain that to anybody.

I would make a horrible politician, because I wouldn't enjoy my work.

The politicians of New York...see nothing wrong in the rule, that to the victor belong the spoils of the enemy

I don't want to associate myself with any specific group of politicians.

There are honest journalists like there are honest politicians - they stay bought.

The politicians are no prizes, but the people are even worse, they're so ill-informed. I never understand the pushback when I say people are stupid.

Politicians are conservative by nature.

[Barack] Obama doesn't disappoint me, because all during the campaign he said, I'm a pragmatic, middle-of-the-road, compromising politician.

I'm not a politician, I'm a comedian. I know my limitations.

I think I'm one of five people in the Senate who's never been a politician before. And now that I am a politician, what I find weird about it is that I respect myself less.

Sarah Palin kept talking and talking, and the more she talks, the less compelling she can be. People say, "She's a very good politician, very deft at what she does," and whatever. And I hear that sometimes and go, "I don't know much about this stuff, but I would say no." Because the really good politician expands the audience, not contracts it. She may be getting a very vocal crowd, but it's a very specific group.

I don't see Sarah Palin suddenly spilling over to a wider group where suddenly they go, "Wait a minute, I've heard her message, and now I'm beginning..." It's not expanding it. A politician that doesn't expand from the base is not a good politician. So I disagree with all the talking heads that go "Well, she's a very good politician." She's not! Good politicians expand, and she doesn't.

And I think there is too much bloviating around from politicians.

It seems to me that politicians ought to use the same words as other people.

All of the promises of politicians, generals, madmen, and crusaders that war can create peace have yet to be borne out.

War was ... the chief or maybe the only source of patriotism, and many a politician, from prehistory up to this morning, unified a discontented citizenry by pointing out a national danger and declaring war on it.

I think it's very hard for a woman to be treated as a person and not just as a woman who tries to become a politician.

Back in the '50s and '60s, most politicians were concerned about not talking about faith, partly because there were consequences you had to deal with - (for instance) Catholicism had been made an issue.

On the spectrum of successful politicians, I'm not introverted the way some have been.

I'm a doctor and a politician. Weapons are foreign to me.

What we face in Canada are multiple overlapping crises. We have the climate crisis, which is screaming down on us - all of the predictions are coming true even faster than the scientists thought. We have the inequality crisis, where the Panama Papers are a great reminder that the one per cent have actually created their own economy. We still have the crisis of child poverty, which has never been dealt with despite decades of concerned words from politicians.

I look upon myself as a politician. That isn't a dirty word.

The way I approach stardom and the show, I'm like a politician. I'm an elected late-night official to do your work.