Quotes About Politicians

The Senate could use more people who had to sweat for a living and fewer of the politicians who made this mess.

For too long, I equated leadership with a position. I thought leaders were presidents or politicians or celebrities or four-star generals with a horse and sword.

You can be a sex symbol through music or film. Hey, there are some politicians that are sex symbols. Is that something you should fight? No. Sex is very natural.

I have a certain sympathy with politicians having lived with one. I've seen how no matter how earnest or driven or energetic they are, it's still difficult to change things. I have been encouraged to go into politics, but I don't think I could make a contribution, it suits me better to be sniping from the sidelines.

Suenan las voces de los estudiantes que se quejan, como debe ser, de todos los políticos habidos y por haber

Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision.

The truth is, Japan is headed for crisis. We are in the hands of greedy businessmen and weak politicians. Such people will see to it poverty grows every day.

We spent the first half hour being escorted around the room, introduced to what seemed like every politician and business leader in the state. I know I should have been impressed, but I couldn't help thinking that I was in the same room with quite possibly every person responsible for the Florida election snafu, and the subsequent election of George W. Bush, and somehow I couldn't muster a proper feeling of awe.

politicians often had the knack of seeming to know everyone intimately. Either they had remarkable memories, or their secretaries reminded them efficiently.

You know politicians', Rosa said. 'They're sensitive as schoolgirls, and more vengeful.

I problemi facili si risolvono subito, per cui restano solo quelli difficili. È per questo che non devi mai credere a un politico che ha risposte facili.

Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't natural.

Power is a drug on which the politicians are hooked. They buy it from the voters, using the voters' own money.

I refuse to stand by while our democracy is trampled by politicians more concerned about amassing power than helping the people who sent them to Washington in the first place.

Get power but don't admit to it. Do it by stealth. There's a whole trend of Rhodes scholars who will be politicians around the world.

Simple narcissism gives the power of beasts to politicians, professional wrestlers and female movie stars.

What are politicians going to tell people when the Constitution is gone and we still have a drug problem?

Shorten is one of that interesting pack of politicians born of determined mothers and largely absent fathers. There are so many: Barack Obama, Bill Clinton and Tony Blair are distinguished alumni. Among recent Labor leaders in Australia are Rudd, Albanese and Shorten. Among the qualities these men share are self-discipline, boundless ambition and an appetite for approval on a national scale.

Reporters heard words but not poetry, saw old politicians but not new heroes.

Suffering is to cyclists what poll data are to politicians; they rely on it to tell them how well they are doing their job.

Over and over, we hear politicians say they can't spend our tax dollars on environmental protection when the economy is so fragile.

Peace cannot he imposed by politicians or Churches. Peace has to grow within each person if it is to endure. Our society can only be healed when each person in it is healed.

Metaphorically, Tom said, if you take knowledge as light, and ignorance as dark, there does sometimes seem to be a real presence to the dark -- to ignorance. Something more tactile and muscley than just lack of knowledge. A sort of will to ignorance. It would explain some politicians.

He was scolding me," replied Mr. Cord. "Have you noticed, Crystal, what a lot of scolding is going on in the world at present? I believe that that is why no one is getting any work done—everyone is so busy scolding everybody else. The politicians are scolding, and the newspapers are scolding, and most of the fellows I know are scolding. I believe I've got hold of a great truth—