Quotes About Politicians

Liberty is never safer than when politicans are terrified.

In the era of imperialism, businessmen became politicians and were acclaimed as statesmen, while statesmen were taken seriously only if they talked the language of succcessful businessmen.

I don't pick on politicians. They ain't done nothin'.

Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians.

Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good.

It's not that I'm not interested in politics, but rather, I think that the people who become politicians in Japan are not very dynamic. Honestly, I find business much more interesting than politics.

All politicians have vanity. Some wear it more gently than others.

Politicians are just a bunch of local bandits, sent by their local voters to raid the public treasury.

In fact, the likeliest reason why so many of us care so little about politics is that modern politicians makes us sad, hurt us deep down in ways that are hard even to name, much less talk about.

Trump is bringing his business acumen to politics. That's something that politicians don't have: business acumen, many of them. And so they don't recognize it, and they don't understand it.

All politicians promise that which they cannot deliver. I just wish they did so less gleefully.

Professional politicians like to talk about the value of experience in government. Nuts! The only experience you gain in politics is how to be political.

I have a deep and profound mistrust of all politicians.

God has no role to play in politics except to make sure politicians go where they belong. To hell.

Politicians... talk in generalities and lies, and I think they've caused all our grief. They're so awful, they're really funny. I hate thinking this because my dad loved politics.

I don't like my politicians entertaining me and I don't like my entertainers politicianing me.

I probably had 150 meetings with Trent Lott. He has said exactly as many racist things to me as Bill Clinton has, which is to say zero.

I don't know a lot about politics. I like talking about human behavior. Politicians are funny to me because they often say one thing and behave a different way.

Politics in a democracy is transactional: Politicians seek votes by promising to do things for voters, who seek promises in exchange for their votes.

I think politicians get hamstrung by the nature of politics when the private sector can really do great things.

I loved politics and, I confess, I enjoyed politicians immensely.

We're not disinterested in politics. It's just that politicians are disinteresting.

Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians.

The first requisite of a sound monetary system is that it put the least possible power over the quantity or quality of money in the hands of the politicians.