Quotes About Politician

I'm a politician, and as a politician I have the prerogative to lie whenever I want.

You don't need qualifications as an actor or a politician. And I didn't want to be a politician.

Leadership is a dynamic tension between where a politician thinks his country must go and where his voters want it to go.

You ask a politician a question, like, why they ran in an election, and you'll hear, I assume, something about wanting to contribute to the community or bring about social justice. I had no such high goals.

Bernie Sanders is the only politician who, consistently for 50 years, has taken that social justice platform into politics.

I have been privileged to write across multiple facets of my life: to write romance novels, to write memoir, to write about leadership, and to write tax and social policy articles. The act of writing is integral to who I am. I'm a writer, a politician, a tax attorney, a civic leader, and an entrepreneur. I am proud of what I've accomplished.

Because Social Security has not contributed to our debt, Americans should be skeptical of any politician who says that benefits Americans have earned must be reduced in order to address our national debt.

No politician after the Nixon-Agnew years would say, 'I was against the death penalty,' because they replaced 'soft on communism' with 'soft on crime.' You just see the horror of this thing.

I have proudly spent several periods in government, but I'm not a career politician. I come from a family of 'citizen soldiers.'

I'm not a politician. I don't know how to solve the problems of the world. But as an artist, I have one duty: to ask questions.

I may not be a polished politician, but as a lifelong farmer, I know that most problems can be solved with a little common sense.

I know Gov. Christie. We've met a couple of times.

Some years ago, in my syndicated column, I challenged anyone to name any economist, of any school of thought, who had actually advocated a "trickle down" theory. No one quoted any economist, politician or person in any other walk of life who had ever advocated such a theory, even though many readers named someone who claimed that someone else had advocated it, without being able to quote anything actually said by that someone else. 2

You have a wonderful knack for putting things in perspective, my dear. You make me feel quite intellectually inferior." The blonde girl grinned. "You see? I'm already learning to become a politician's wife.

Nowhere but in England are the papers so full of fascinating misbehaviour. There is always a scandal brewing, there is always a politician, village vicar or bank manager being pilloried, yet at the same time the country breathes a remarkable sense of order.

There's a certain drama in going down in a good cause. Any decent politician is masochistic enough to dream now and then of going down in flames while the angels sing. But, -Dr. Lamont, to do that one has to have a fighting chance. One has to have something to fight for that may— justmay— win out.

Hardin shook himself out of an abstracted reverie. 'No, milord, can't say I am. I'm a psychologist by original intention and a politician by final decision.' 'Ah! No doubt intewesting studies. I, myself, y'know

Any politician that says no tax revenue or zero spending cuts does not deserve reelection. Our hole is so deep in this country with the debt and the debt service, the interest on that debt, before the big expenses come for Social Security and Medicare - for we baby boomers in a few years - that everything has to be on the table.

We played ten packed-out shows at the Kremlin in just seven days and only discovered later that everyone in the crowd for the first three nights was a politician. They had all come from the nine Soviet time zones just to see us.

London chose to come out in record numbers, the highest turnout there's ever been in a mayoral election, and - I say this not with arrogance; it is what others have said - the single biggest mandate a British politician has ever received. That shows what a wonderful city we are.

I've only very rarely sent a tweet to a politician. I think it could look a little too buddy-buddy if you're tweeting with people that you cover.

You have to define how much of a cultural politician you are as a performer. There are times where I just want to remain a civilian.

I have a new dream I must be a politician to save this country. There are so many crises in our country. I want to remove these crises.

I think it has sullied his presidency. As brilliant a politician as Bill Clinton is, as magnetic a personality as he can be, there is one little screw loose somewhere.