Quotes About Politician

He spends the night in prayer. God's voice, through the intercession of the Blessed Virgin, tells him what the politician in him already knows: that whatever he might stand to gain from playing one against the other, the prospect of a foreign army marching through Italy can bring only instability and devastation in its wake for all. He is, it seems, the Church's shepherd after all.

Action comes from keeping the heat on. No politician can sit on a hot issue if you make it hot enough.

There is no patriotic obligation to help advance the career of a politician who is otherwise pursuing interests that are fundamentally antithetical to your values. That's not the call of patriotism.

The best way to lose weight is to close your mouth - something very difficult for a politician. Or watch your food - just watch it, don't eat it.

The politician in my country seeks votes, affection and respect, in that order. ... With few notable exceptions, they are simply men who want to be loved.

People want change but not too much change. Finding that balance is tricky for every politician.

The best way to know the loyalty of a person who is vouching support to a politician is to stop giving him the fund with which he flies, drives, dines and enjoys all day and night party.

The difference between a comedian and a politician is that a comedian cracks jokes often on oneself to make the audience laugh and in return earns some money, whereas a politician cracks jokes often on ordinary population to make their life miserable & oneself laugh only and also sneakily takes out lots of money from their pockets

The type of people who support a politician says a lot about his/her true character and they only often expose the hidden nature of that political figure.

If you hook up a politician to a lie detector machine, the shrapnel could kill everyone in the room.

You have all the characteristics of a popular politician a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.

What was I qualified to do to make a living? Nothing. You don't need qualifications as an actor or a politician. And I didn't want to be a politician.

Attacks on a politician's identity - questioning Romney's religion, say, or Obama's birthplace - tend to come when an opponent is desperate and can't sell himself.

A consensus politician is someone who does something that he doesn't believe is right because it keeps people quiet when he does it.

I ran two campaigns for governor in a state that's 2-1 Democrat where I did not mention my opponent in print, radio, or television. I don't know if any other politician at a gubernatorial, congressional, or a senatorial level can make the claim.

If you see voters as rational, you'll be a terrible politician. People are not wired to be rational. Our brains simply evolved to keep us alive. Brains did not evolve to give us truth. Brains merely give us movies in our minds that keeps us sane and motivated. But none of it is rational or true, except maybe sometimes by coincidence.

In 1977, at least, he wished to have people believe that he shared and was proud of an attitude toward women that is not acceptable in a politician. In 2003, all he has said is that he doesn't remember the interview.

Thatcher was the best politician I have ever witnessed.

I said that if I hadn't been a politician, I'd have liked to be a barrister, or an academic. My beloved wife said: 'You'd be a very good barrister and a hopeless academic.' I said 'Why?' She said: 'Because you're not an original thinker.'

By 1918 Nadya's letters hint that she has fallen in love with Stalin. Svetlana explains that Nadya "had only begun to grow when the Revolution broke out, whereas he [Stalin] was already a man nearly forty, an age of hardened scepticism and cold calculation and all the other qualities important in a politician.

He was half a politician, and like most of his kind he was an insecure man.

his manner had the heavy ease of a politician, poised between bullying and flattery.

I am a sportsman and not a politician. I am a sportsman and will always remain one. I am not going to enter politics giving up cricket, which is my life. I will continue to play cricket.

The more a politician pretended to hate something seemed to mean they were actually that thing.