Quotes with politicians

  • Politicians have the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterward to explain why it didn't happen.
  • Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory.
  • You can't trust politicians. It doesn't matter who makes a political speech. It's all lies - and it applies to any rock star who wants to make a political speech as well.
  • Why do our politicians put warnings on cigarette packs and not on their own foreheads?
  • Politicians use statistics in the same way that a drunk uses lamp-posts—for support rather than illumination.
  • When in doubt, wear a suit. Look at male politicians: you see them in a suit, and they look fine. But if you see a picture of them on the weekend or on vacation, there's a good chance they look terrible and unstylish.
  • Politicians have limited power. They can't impose morality on themselves. How can they impose it on the country?
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  • John F. Kennedy Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be President, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Pat Caddell A politicians willingness to listen to good advice rises in inverse proportion to how badly he thinks he is doing.
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  • Sir Walter Raleigh All histories do show, and wise politicians do hold it necessary that, for the well-governing of every Commonweal, it behoveth man to presuppose that all men are evil, and will declare themselves so to be when occasion is offered.
    Sir Walter Raleigh
    British courtier, writer (1552 - 1618)
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  • Benjamin Whichcote Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable; the principles of it are troublesome.
    Benjamin Whichcote
    British philosopher (1609 - 1683)
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  • Jonathan Swift And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Angela Merkel As politicians we have to react to the fact that many people do not feel that they can relate to the EU.
    Angela Merkel
    German politician and chancellor (1954 - )
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  • Abigail Adams Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
    Letter to John Adams (5 August 1776)
    Abigail Adams
    Wife of John Adams (1744 - 1818)
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  • Adam Clymer Democratic politicians have disliked things I've written, Republican politicians... if they all love you, you might as well be driving a Good Humor truck.
    Adam Clymer
    American journalist (1937 - 2018)
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  • Cass Sunstein Democrats want to use government power to make people's lives go better; Republicans respond that people know more than politicians do. We think that both might be able to agree that nudging can maintain free markets, and liberty, while also inclining people in good directions.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Peggy Noonan Don't fall in love with politicians, they're all a disappointment. They can't help it, they just are.
    Peggy Noonan
    American Author, Presidential Speechwriter (1950 - )
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  • Brad Wenstrup Every time I would give a talk, someone would say, 'You ought to go into politics.' I prefer to call it government leadership. My life has taken me to places where I have experiences that I think I can share. A lot of times, we see people who are career politicians. I'm not the conventional candidate, nor do I want to be.
    Brad Wenstrup
    American politician, <a href="/wiki/U.S._Army_Reserve" class="mw-redirect&# (1958 - )
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  • Will Rogers Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • Ely Culbertson God and the politicians willing, the United States can declare peace upon the world, and win it.
    Must We Fight Russia , ch 5
    Ely Culbertson
    American bridge player and pacifist writer (1891 - 1955)
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  • Bono Hanging out with politicians and corporations is very unhip work. But I think that the U2 audience have turned out to be incredibly subtle in their understanding.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Antony Jay He's suffering from Politicians' Logic. Something must be done, this is something, therefore we must do it.
    Antony Jay
    English writer, broadcaster, and director (1930 - 2016)
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  • Pierre-Auguste Renoir I consider that women who are authors, lawyers, and politicians are monsters.
    Pierre-Auguste Renoir
    French painter (1841 - 1919)
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  • Jose Ortega Y Gasset I do not deny that there may be other well-founded causes for the hatred which various classes feel toward politicians, but the main one seems to me that politicians are symbols of the fact that every class must take every other class into account.
    Jose Ortega Y Gasset
    Spanish writer and philosopher (1883 - 1955)
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  • Charles de Gaulle I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
    Charles de Gaulle
    French statesman (1890 - 1970)
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  • Assata Shakur I have declared war on the rich who prosper on our poverty, the politicians who lie to us with smiling faces, and all the mindless, heartless, robots who protect them and their property.
    Assata: An Autobiography (1987) 65
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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  • Aung San Suu Kyi I think I should be active politically. Because I look upon myself as a politician. That's not a dirty work you know. Some people think that there are something wrong with politicians. Of course, something wrong with some politicians.
    Aung San Suu Kyi
    Burmese politician (1945 - )
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