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Quotes About Politics

People want politicians to address the big issues and if they can do it across the divide of parties then so be it.
~ Damian Green
Politicians making grand warnings in Churchillian-sounding phrases about becoming a 'vassal state' don't help pay the bills.
~ Damian Green
I am satisfied that all politicians were meant to be journalists and all journalists meant to be politicians.
~ Owen Arthur
There is no such thing as several Romanias, but only politicians who divide Romania depending on the interests of their parties and their clout.
~ Traian Basescu
Let's give the conventions back to the politicians. If we think there's any news, we can tack it on afterward as commentary. But the conventions should be their show, not ours.
~ Don Hewitt
And I think there is too much bloviating around from politicians.
~ Barney Frank
Politicians often lie.
~ Paul Weyrich
Most politicians, when they meet with a guy like me, or a guy like Carville, tell you about how they can win.
~ Paul Begala
I think most politicians could take a dodgeball in the face.
~ Ben Stiller
There are honest journalists like there are honest politicians - they stay bought.
~ Bill Moyers
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.
~ Lauren Bush
The secret lives of politicians are always shady. People need to accept the fact that their leaders aren't perfect. No one is.
~ Evan Rachel Wood
When politicians use fear, they are playing into the enemy's hand.
~ John Mellencamp
I never wanted to be aligned to a mature group because they go off and become politicians and stuff.
~ Richard O'Brien
I did not deal well with the politicians. I tend to tell people that when they are full of crap, that they are full of crap.
~ Robert Crandall
I will deal with the politicians in a political way and with the nonpoliticians in a nonpolitical way.
~ Muqtada al Sadr
It is not through any combinations of politicians that the outcome of an electoral campaign is decided.
~ Dominique de Villepin
Nothing panics politicians like $4 a gallon gas.
~ John Sununu
I'm in England so often I haven't really left, but Americans aren't at all like they're misrepresented through their politicians.
~ John Lydon
Sometimes you get politicians who dig their feet into the sand and aren't willing to listen to another voice.
~ Elizabeth Edwards
I don't like politicians who vacillate.
~ Eliot Spitzer
Every day things get better because politicians are addressing the fiscal challenges more aggressively.
~ Meredith Whitney
The last thing we want is politicians running newspapers, but so too we don't want newspapers running the government.
~ Thomas Watson, Jr.
I get the feeling a lot of politicians are there to help themselves financially, first and foremost. I don't really need to do that, and I thought if I could do something for sport in Scotland, that would be really fulfilling.
~ Gordon Strachan