Politician Quotes - Page 9

A Louisiana politician can't afford to let his animosities carry him away, and still less his principles, although there is seldom difficulty in that department.

It is hard for any one to be an honest politician who is not born and bred a Dissenter.

A herd of prairie-wolves will enter a field of melons and quarrel about the division of the spoils as fiercely and noisily as so many politicians.

That's the trouble with a politician's life-somebody is always interrupting it with an election.

We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values.

Politicians are just Daily Mail journalists writ large, aren't they? They're always telling us what's going to happen, and we know they don't know!

The only politician ever to have entered parliament with honourable intentions, was Guy Fawkes.

Honey, I forgot to duck

I played by the rules of politics as I found them.

Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.

It is essential for politicians to make a connection with us, as Franklin Roosevelt did, as Teddy Roosevelt did, as John F. Kennedy did, as Ronald Reagan did.

Accept certain inalienable truths, prices will rise, politicians will philander, you too will get old, and when you do you'll fantasize that when you were young prices were reasonable, politicians were noble and children respected their elders.

Politicians, old buildings, and prostitutes become respectable with age.

If you call your opponent a politician, it's grounds for libel.

To be free is better than to be unfree – always. Any politician who suggests the opposite should be treated as suspect.

You cannot teach somebody to write a masterpiece, but you can certainly teach them how to improve their writing skills. And you can teach them that they can make their own voices more effective by being able to communicate more clearly and forcefully. It makes people feel more capable when they can write - for instance to make a request - of a politician - and when they are able to receive a reply.

..Washington, where the human rights of terrorists are often given high priority. And I am certain liberal politicians would defend their position to the death. Because everyone knows liberals have never been wrong about anything. You can ask them. Anytime.

In politics, as in womanizing, failure is decisive. It sheds its retrospective gloom on earlier endeavor which at the time seemed full of promise.

I liked it when we had ugly politicians who droned on about issues.

Priests are no more necessary to religion than politicians are to patriotism.

[the downfall of our political system is the] buying and selling of politicians...bribery. In the private sector, you're arrested for it. In the public sector, it's the norm.

I completely agree when there are actors who say, "Actors should stay out of politics. We're not politicians."

Nothing is irreparable in politics.

I'm not a professional politician. I'm a professional problem solver.

If it's going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.