Quotes About Promises

If you add up all the promises any politicians makes, the math doesn't work.

I've had my fill of media sensationalism and false promises.

When the people gave them the mandate to govern in 2008, these UDP leaders had one thing in mind: They run things. They forgot all their lofty promises to the people. They set out to crush the PUP and to erase all the accomplishments of the PUP years in government.

After believing in promises made and never fulfilled by Labour, people have become increasingly disenchanted with the process assuming that all politicians will say anything to gain power, and then never follow through.

There are certain promises you make that are more sacred than anything that happens in a court of law, I don't care how many Bibles you put your hand on.

What generally happens in this county is that our politicians don't serve us well because they don't tell the truth, and they don't keep their promises.

The god of the Christians, as we have seen, is the god who makes promises only to break them; who sends them pestilence and disease in order to heal them; a god who demoralizes mankind in order to improve it.

Category after category, Barack Obama hasn't met the promises that he laid out to the American people.

If we are going to try to get across to the poorest people in the world that we care about their plight and we want them to join one world with the rest of us, we have got to make promises and keep promises.

When you're not the Steph Currys or the Kyrie Irvings of the league, long-term promises are irrelevant.

Promises to get beyond partisanship are the most perfunctory sort of campaign rhetoric, almost as empty as the partisanship itself.

The Europeans had made two promises to the United States if Marshall Plan help was forthcoming. The first promise was maximum self-help on the part of every country; and second, maximum mutual aid.

If I'm sure of a person and his potential in politics, and if I know he will live up to his promises, I wouldn't mind campaigning for him. I believe in the dictum, 'never say never.' You never know, I might end up joining politics.

Anybody that's asked, I've counseled that they not expand Medicaid eligibility. I've been critical of any expansion because you know what Washington does. It promises something for a finite period of time, and then it leaves you on the hook.

You have to be up-front from the very beginning about what your expectations of the other person are, and you can't make any promises you don't intend to keep.

Politicians never keep all their promises.

Few promises are more sacred than the ones we make to older Americans.

I do not live on false promises. I cannot afford to live on bad advice.

Gilles Duceppe avoids making campaign promises altogether so he can emphasize that his Bloc Quebecois has only one objective: to prevent Harper from forming a majority government.

What America needs is not just another politician or more promises. What America needs is a revival.

What does that mean for a society, for a democracy, when the people that you elect on the basis of promises can basically suborn the will of the electorate?

I want to make sure that I fulfill the promises that I made to New Mexicans. That's extremely important to me.

Politicians make phony promises all the time that they can't deliver.

I make no promises every book will be about Chicago, but it's so inspiring. It's a city of such contradictions. I love to write about it.