Quotes About Politicians

Life is challenging enough without politicians to confuse us.

The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.

There are a lot of politicians who are just obstructionists.

I happen to think it's the politics that makes you electable, but the reason for that is politicians sometimes talk about electability as if it's just a matter of conning the public. Actually, it's a matter of persuading the public, and in my experience, usually, the public gets it right.

Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks, and the politicians and other compromised officials improve their bank balances.

Every state that addresses climate change emboldens the others, just as shifting public attitudes embolden politicians and, arguably, the court system.

You never know with politicians what they are really saying. And I don't say that in a negative way-they have an appalling job.

In a democracy, opposition politicians have a duty to hold the Government to account.

Drug reformers get seduced by politicians who co-opt our language but who make no meaningful change. And when we don't hold politicians accountable, we contribute to harm.

Year after year, politicians have drafted huge piles of legislation on the assumption that most people are not good. And we know the consequences of that policy: inequality, loneliness and mistrust.

Politicians said that with our cheap labour, we could be competitive in the world. Nothing could be further from the truth. We were the most uncompetitive country with that cheap labour.

I'm interested in full disclosure for people who give money to politicians. But I'm not a politician. I'm an advocate.

If politicians did care about their constituents, they would work harder to seek out people like me. They don't.

I guess you can get politicians out of politics, but you can't get politics out of them.

When borrowers anticipate that politicians might cancel their loans, they stop paying.

Politicians making grand warnings in Churchillian-sounding phrases about becoming a 'vassal state' don't help pay the bills.

Certainly, it seems true enough that there's a good deal of irony in the world... I mean, if you live in a world full of politicians and advertising, there's obviously a lot of deception.

Politicians are no different than the rest of the public.

Any debate among politicians about monetary policy is counterproductive.

In working class districts, you had several families living together in the one house, and it was very difficult to get a house, because the politicians who controlled housing were doing so in a very discriminatory fashion.

Let's give the conventions back to the politicians. If we think there's any news, we can tack it on afterward as commentary. But the conventions should be their show, not ours.

It is hard to say why politicians are called servants, unless it is because a good one is hard to find.

Present law has a process to ascertain whether or not a patient is in a persistent vegetative state, and it should not matter what politicians think.

I'm your average Joe guy. I don't really care for politicians.