Quotes About Politician

Alarm bells ring when a politician stands haughty upon his honour.

Your man with a thin skin, a vehement ambition, a scrupulous conscience, and a sanguine desire for rapid improvement is never a happy, and seldom a fortunate politician.

It's always an interesting experience for a politician to be heard in silence, I have to say.

A statesman is a successful politician who is dead.

He was a consummate politician-- which is to say he was given to expedient speech and lacked even a vestigial spine.

My definition of a redundancy is an air-bag in a politician's car.

Now Lu wonders if her father worried that moving up through the political ranks would cost him that adjective, beloved. Certainly, almost no politician is described that way anymore. Even the people who vote for you didn't seem to like you that much.

Michel Samaha, a Lebanese politician with strong public links to the government in Damascus, calls the revolution against President Bashar al-Assad "a Salafist awakening.

A statesman is a man that can do what the politician would like to do but can't because he is afraid of not being elected.

Whenever I hear and see a politician or a military leader, a bank of American flags at his back, trying to convince us of the rightness of a policy or a deed that will cause harm to others; when I am almost convinced myself that setting humanitarian concern in abeyance can be justified in the interest of a greater good, I pause and ask myself what my brain-smoked friends would have to say.

the red-haired aesthete politician flashed a welcoming smile and extended a hand in greeting.

Jack and Jill came to the hill on a grave and somber mission you've made them mad the time's so bad to be a politician Jack and Jill came to hill to do some deadly deeds they weren't far wrong to judge how long a bleeding liberal bleeds.

I have a unique ambition for a politician. I am the first aspiring education secretary to want less power not more.

As a politician, I worked very, very hard in order to maintain the unity of our country. That was my aim.

Howard Dean is a politician, a medical doctor and a Democrat. So he has three reasons to tell women to take off their clothes now.

I have run large organizations, I know what it takes to create a healthy business climate, and I have more experience than Jerry Brown doing that. So it'll be a stark contrast, a career politician vs. someone who has met a payroll, gotten a return on investment, knows how to use technology to do more with less.

I'm a singer, not a politician, and I think you don't want the two to get confused. It's not OK to be on CNN talking about people starving and then tell the interviewer that your new album is coming out in six months.

If a statesman is one who looks to the next generation and a politician one who looks to the next election, a political consultant must be one who looks to the next tracking poll.

You know, a statesman is a dead politician.

There's a certain clubbiness to the idea that you're an ex-president. You're no longer a politician. You're a statesman.

We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician.

Now I know what a statesman is; he's a dead politician. We need more statesmen.

On December 13, 1931, a fifty-seven-year-old English politician, still a member of Parliament but quite unwelcome in his own party's government, stepped out of a taxi on New York's Fifth Avenue.

It is part of the trivialization of politics that we give endless attention to the inner life of the politician - his private thoughts, his inner demons - at the expense of his outer life.