Words matter. These are the best Politician Quotes from famous people such as Bruce Rauner, Adam Gilchrist, YG, David Cunliffe, Malala Yousafzai, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I’m a business guy. I’m not a politician.
I have no desire to be a politician. The role of chairman is not a politically aligned role, although it’s all based in Canberra so I’m over there a lot.
I ain’t no politician.
I’ve worked as a diplomat before I became a politician.
I realized that becoming a doctor, I can only help a small community. But by becoming a politician, I can help my whole country.
Even though the white-haired politician has no colorful wardrobe, after he speaks… you want to hug him. Why? Because what Bernie Sanders says feels like the truth. The unbridled truth. And he says it loud.
Any politician promising not to raise your taxes is like a vampire promising to become a vegetarian.
I want to write songs, and I would like to play and sing them. I’m not a politician; I’m not a comedian. I hate coming up with bits to do between songs.
I’m not a politician. I only want to help relieve the suffering in communities, and I want to help people see their community in each other.
Anna Wintour is the most powerful woman in the global fashion industry, the first lady of fashion. She’s a politician; I’m a stylist. They are two very different jobs.
I’m an entrepreneur. I’m not a politician.
I can’t understand why anyone would want to live the life of a politician if you can’t say pretty much what you think. You are not in it for the money: there’s unremitting pressure on your life, you give up so much of your privacy. It can only be because of the things you want to do and the things you want to say.
I think I should be active politically. Because I look upon myself as a politician. That’s not a dirty work you know. Some people think that there are something wrong with politicians. Of course, something wrong with some politicians.
Because Social Security has not contributed to our debt, Americans should be skeptical of any politician who says that benefits Americans have earned must be reduced in order to address our national debt.
No politician would ever comment on a cartoon unless it was to show what a great sense of humour they have, that they can laugh at themselves.
I’m not a politician. And I don’t want to be.
I’m not a politician.
A lot of people who voted for Barack Obama expected and were led to expect something new in politics: a new tone of political discourse in Washington. And I think – I think they’re disappointed, because Barack Obama is not a new kind of politician. In fact, he’s an old Chicago politician.
As a politician who cherishes religious conviction in his personal sphere, but regards politics as a domain belonging outside religion, I believe that this view is seriously flawed.
I’m a member of the Academy, but I don’t know who all the other Academy members are. It’s not like a politician who knows who is in the Iowa caucus.
Cindy Sheehan is a clown. There is no real antiwar movement. No serious politician, with anything to do with anything, would show his face at an antiwar rally.
It is weird. A lot of people try to ask me political questions. I’m not a politician.
The politician and the government expert receive their revenues, not from service voluntarily purchased on the market, but from a compulsory levy on the populace. These officials, therefore, wholly lack the pecuniary incentive to care about serving the public properly and competently.
A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.
Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
I should learn the language of a politician – give away as little and keep the rest to yourself. Not lie, I just want to be more guarded.
I’m obviously not a politician, nor do I have the desire to be one, but I’m a conscious citizen.
Every politician should go and spend time and visit prisons and jails. Because if you are choosing to exercise this kind of power over another person’s life, there’s a role for that, but you have to know the kind of power you are exercising.
I am not a politician or a military strategist. I am just a citizen voicing my opinions.
I am no politician.
I am not a professional politician.
My own electorate, which I represented for 36 years as an anti-apartheid politician, had a considerable number of Jewish voters supporting me throughout my career.
My father was a politician, and a very important politician, and one of the leaders of the Iraqi Democratic Party, who believed in progress.
I’m not just a politician, I’m a guy who has a real deep, substantive, commitment to education.
I’m not a traditional politician, and I have a sense of humor. I’ll try to soften it and become boring, maybe even very boring, but I’m not sure if I’ll be able to.
Putin responds to threats, to illegal sanctions, and to incessant propaganda with statements that governments need to respect each other’s national interests and to work together for common benefit. No politician in the West speaks in this way.
Sometimes it’s a little bit like being a politician. We have work to do in understanding our users’ sentiments.
Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.
Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.
Our society is ridden with corruption and corrupt people. This is perhaps the reason why despite receiving several offers, I am unwilling to contest elections as I lack what it takes to become a politician.
No politician has a 50-year horizon.
I’m interested in full disclosure for people who give money to politicians. But I’m not a politician. I’m an advocate.
I’m afraid I talk a lot, too much, perhaps. I should have been a lawyer or a college professor or a windy politician, though I’m glad I am not any of these.
You must understand the difference between being an architect and a politician. Architecture is a profession of perseverance. You have to come through. The politician is there to blame someone.
I always tell people this: to be a savvy politician or a good head of state and to be charitable are not mutually exclusive things.
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.
It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.
This idea that you can’t be an honest man and a Washington politician is a myth, a crock made up by sellouts and careerist hacks who don’t stand for anything and are impatient with people who do. It’s possible to do this job with honor and dignity.
It’s always an interesting experience for a politician to be heard in silence, I have to say.
I don’t think generally politician come from democratic country. I think not that thinking. But sometimes little bit short-sighted. They are mainly looking for their next vote.
Although I come from a political family, I consider myself a slightly atypical politician.
I’m not a politician. But neither is Donald Trump. He is a builder, and it’s time to rebuild America.
What was I qualified to do to make a living? Nothing. You don’t need qualifications as an actor or a politician. And I didn’t want to be a politician.
In America, the new post-postmodern politician is all about authenticity: the daffier you are, the ‘realer’ you must be. The more you have committed yourself to a ridiculous idea and fevered view, the more worthy you are of attention.
As a politician, I should expect sharp challenge from those who disagree with my decisions.
If I say I am not a politician, it is because I did not go to school to do political science. But at the end of the day, I think we are all born politicians. It’s practical. All you gotta do is practice.
The days of a politician talking platitudes are over, and if it wasn’t for Mr. Trump in this race, people would have allowed politicians to have a pass in talking platitudes about things that will never be accomplished.
The ability to change one’s views without losing one’s seat is the mark of a great politician.
Primarily affecting low-information voters and members of the mainstream media, Obama Worship Syndrome attributes impossible capabilities to Obama’s political opponents, finds excuses for every Obama failure in everyone around him and praises the president as the finest politician – nay, human being – of our time.
I don’t look forward to a time when every politician, every legislator goes to Washington absolutely committed to an extreme point of view. Elected representatives are sent to Washington to compromise, not to never compromise.
I am not a politician. I am just a business guy who has had enough.
People want change but not too much change. Finding that balance is tricky for every politician.
Hip-hop has done so much for racial relations, and I don’t think it’s given the proper credit. It has changed America immensely. I’m going to make a very bold statement: Hip-hop has done more than any leader, politician, or anyone to improve race relations.
I’ve said all along we need a chief executive, not a chief politician, in the White House.
A lot of evangelicals have grown accustomed to feeling used by the political process. Every politician appeals to us, every one wants to hear us out during the campaign, but then things change once they get into office.
One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of responsibility, and a sense of proportion.
I wholeheartedly rejected anything remotely feminine but was not enthusiastic about anything masculine, either. I did not want to cook and have babies, and I did not want to be an engineer or a baseball player or a soldier or a politician or any of the myriad careers open mostly or solely to men. I wanted to be a poet.
When we win, it will tell every politician in America that if you are bold, if you do the right thing, if you tackle the tough issues, there will be people standing there right with you.
Hillary Clinton is a corrupt career politician who has recklessly handled classified information in an attempt to avoid accountability and put American lives at risk, including those of my former colleagues. She fails the basic tests of judgment and ethics any candidate for president must meet.
Every time I hear a politician mention the word ‘stimulus,’ my mind flashes back to high school biology class, when I touched battery wires to a dead frog to make it twitch.
I love my country, but it’s a very hard life, the life of a politician.
With Boris Johnson, you don’t think of him as a politician, oddly. You think of him as a media personality because he’s a comic character. He’s basically Homer Simpson. That makes him strangely bullet-proof.
Comedy is very disarming. It’s a way to talk about things and still be light-hearted. And when it’s done really well, you never see the strings, whereas when you watch an infomercial or a politician speaking, a lot of times you can see the strings, you can see what agenda they’re trying to push.
How can a bureaucrat or a politician be trusted if he says loud words for the sake of Russia’s good while trying to take his funds, his money abroad?
There’s an old joke that politics is Hollywood for ugly people. An awful lot of the press coverage about Washington reads like coverage of Hollywood. Madonna is having some spat with Sean Penn. Who cares? And who cares which politician is mad at that politician?
Jason McDermott can be the most ingratiating young man: a born politician.
I try to live tolerance in my own way, which is why, as a politician, one of my key priorities is to stand up for human rights.
A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.
I am not a big fan of politicians turning tragedy into opportunity, but I believe that which politician a victim’s family wants to meet is entirely their decision.
The president we have today is a typical Washington politician that’s prone to hyperbole and decisiveness and false outrage. And I think it’s very sad – very sad to watch.
Paula Milne was really the first thing that drew me to ‘The Politician’s Husband.’
To say that Jimmy Carter does not understand politics or is not a good politician denies the phenomenon by which he got to the White House. He is without question the best politician, when he’s working at it, of anybody I have ever seen.
I am not a politician but I have dedicated the biggest part of my professional life to economic policy both in Greece and Europe.
I think if you look at the realm we’re discussing, which is the political realm, I think it would be impossible to find an action by any politician intended to specifically favor either my firm or myself.
One of the things I’ve learned from ‘Borgen’ is that it’s very easy to criticise people; ‘I hate this politician, I hate what they do.’ You are doing this right now with Margaret Thatcher, but sometimes it’s hard to be a politician. I’m not defending Margaret Thatcher, but we believe our statesmen are also human beings.
I am an anti-Conservative politician, and that’s how I would lead our party.
I want to be a public servant, not a politician.
But I don’t feel that as a politician I’m hugely different. Obviously I have a different set of experiences that chime with experiences that many of my constituents have. I think I essentially still have the same set of values and the issues that are important to me don’t seem to have changed hugely.
Once elected, the Pope is by virtue of the promise of Jesus to Peter, the Pope is preserved from the possibility of error. God would change any spend thrift politician into a responsible Pope.
The old adage about giving a man a fish versus teaching him how to fish has been updated by a reader: Give a man a fish and he will ask for tartar sauce and French fries! Moreover, some politician who wants his vote will declare all these things to be among his ‘basic rights.’
When we have a corporation, we must know what the customer wants, what the customers needs. Also, the politician must know what the people want, what the people need.
Life and people are complex. A writer as an artist doesn’t have the personality of a politician. We don’t see the world that simply.
If you are a businessman or a politician in Iran, you can get a visa as quickly as you ask for it.
As someone who’s run for office five times, if the Devil called me and said he wanted to set up a meeting to give me opposition research on my opponent, I’d be on the first trolley to Hell to get it. And any politician who tells you otherwise is a bald-faced liar.
Being a politician, I know how motivating it can be when the public is outraged.
The Democrats like to claim that they are the party of women – in reality, though, no politician has done more for women than Donald J. Trump.
I am a politician but I am also an actress and you do need glamour in politics.
We have a media that presents every politician as being as bad as the next. There is no distinguishing between one good idea or another; no explanation of why constitutional change should be uppermost in the minds of the people I represent.
President Obama is the best-known politician to be exploring the possibilities of new technologies to converse with the people. Others must follow his lead and innovate. It is inevitable.
Artists like Justin Bieber or Lady Gaga have more sway over popular minds than a politician.
I like photographing the people I love, the people I admire, the famous, and especially the infamous. My last infamous subject was the extreme right wing French politician Jean-Marie Le Pen.
‘Socialist’ is the nastiest thing you can say about an American politician in some quarters.
I am not a politician, and my other habits air good.
In the 70s and 80s, Dad was ‘the most hated politician in Britain’. When I started at Holland Park school, the papers turned up and there was a photograph of me published – skinny me in white shorts lining up with lots of other kids for PE. And I was 10.
My great-grandfather was a kola nut trader and the richest man in West Africa at the time of his death. My father was a businessman and politician. I was actually raised by my grandfather.
Pence is the very personification of the career politician. With the exception of a few years doing talk radio and television shows, he has done nothing but run for office, winning all but the first two times.
I’m an unambitious politician.
No sensible elected politician would look for spending reductions out of sacking teachers and nurses. We all know how important they are and that our electors want to keep those we have and employ more where possible.
As a politician, I felt like a servant, but in the film industry, I feel like a queen.
When I was growing up in the United States and Sweden, I never thought about becoming a politician.
I can’t get inside the head of a politician today.
People are always wondering if I am an artist or political activist or politician. Maybe I’ll just clearly tell you: Whatever I do is not art. Let’s say it is just objects or materials, movies or writing, but not art, OK?
A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.
I am a patriot. I would think there are no politicians who are not patriots. Since I am a politician, I often get criticized as I try to exercise what I believe to be right. However, if you mind such criticism, I think you can’t protect people’s lives.
My great-grandfather was a kola nut trader and the richest man in West Africa at the time of his death. My father was a businessman and politician. I was actually raised by my grandfather.
I’m not a polished politician.
To a British politician, a police officer is as invisible as the railings.
I couldn’t imagine a more incompetent politician than myself.
I wasn’t planning on becoming a politician. I was incredibly fulfilled in my role at PATH.
The biggest threat to any politician is an artist. Comedians unleashed can do a great deal of damage. David Letterman can do more damage than any Republican assault by Newt Gingrich.
My mum wanted me to be a doctor like my dad, and at 7, I really wanted to be a politician, and I managed in my mind to combine the two.
Nixon is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump for a speech on conservation.
I’m a role model as a footballer and not as a politician. I want to see myself as a footballer. People respect me for my performances. That’s why they support me, and I’m very thankful for that. But I’m not a politician.
Being a medical practitioner enables me to get in touch with people, understand their problems, feel sympathetic towards them, and the natural thing is to want to help them, and if you become a politician and if you are successful, you can help them even more.
What makes a politician accountable is not that there are millions of people who vote, but that there are procedures of government that force him to account for himself.
Engaging in a sycophantic way with any politician in the short term is tempting. It offers the lure of access and the promise of influence. But ultimately, it can lead to misreading the environment, giving too much of an ear to the politician’s circle, and confining your audience to partisans.
A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.
Politics changes lives. You would expect me, as a politician, to say that. But I don’t say it as a politician: I say it as someone whose own life was changed.
I am not a politician. I contested to get Modi ji another seat.
Howard Dean is not the first politician to distort facts in his own interests. But many activists in the party he now leads are puzzled over what he thinks he is accomplishing politically. Is it good politics to contend that Iraq was better off under Saddam Hussein than even a flawed Islamic republic?
I come here not as a polished politician but as a woman who has had her fair share of life’s knocks.
I have a political attitude, but I’m certainly not a politician.
Apparently Arnold was inspired by President Bush, who proved you can be a successful politician in this country even if English is your second language.
The life of a female politician makes it hard to combine personal life and work, but I think it is almost a patriotic duty to have children.
If you add up all the promises any politician makes, the math doesn’t work. Hillary Clinton’s math doesn’t work; Donald’s math probably doesn’t work. I think you have to listen to their campaign pitches more as symbolic, more as metaphors.
Bernie Sanders is the only politician who, consistently for 50 years, has taken that social justice platform into politics.
Any candidate who claims his religion has no influence on his decisions is either a dishonest politician or a shallow follower of his faith.
In the end, granting mercy comes down to just two people. For the recipient, the pardon is freedom. For the politician, the pardon can mean – not surprisingly – political gain.
Hey, I’m not a politician. I’m a ham. I love to give speeches.
We need an honest politician in charge who doesn’t care whether they are re-elected and is prepared to make the unpopular decisions.
A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.
The power should be in individual democracies in individual communities. It shouldn’t be an oligarchy or some small group of elite. Power should be with the people and not with some politician or some heir to the throne or some madman.
There are numerous bugbears in the profession of a politician. First, ordinary life suffers. Second, there are many temptations to ruin you and those around you. And I suppose third, and this is rarely discussed, people at the top generally have no friends.
Business is a useful tool in politics, but it’s not enough. You need much more than to be a good businessman, to be a good politician.
None from my family was in politics. I am a first-generation politician.
Of course a politician’s promise isn’t worth the paper it’s written on.
One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician’s objective. Election and power are.
The chance to be seen as a warm, witty guy is too good an opportunity for a politician to miss.
I spread the message of hope and of unity. That’s what gets me up in the morning. I can tell you what is wrong, but I can’t tell you how to fix it. I’m a raptivist, not a politician. I deal in hope.
A British politician who cloaks himself in the mantle of God is immediately regarded with suspicion.
What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence.
The SuperPACs and the Citizens United ruling that gives corporations a voice in the political process are all bad news. They made it so you can now lie, and the politician being promoted on that lie will not be held responsible for it.
As an Indian, and now as a politician and a government minister, I’ve become rather concerned about the hype we’re hearing about our own country, all this talk about India becoming a world leader, even the next superpower.
Anyone who knows anything about me should know by now I am certainly not exactly a good politician. I am also willing to admit to you now that I never went to any classes that had anything to do political science.
Can you imagine if it was like that: everything you’re doing as you grow up you’re wondering, ‘What is that going to mean if I ever end up being a politician?’ You wouldn’t have anybody except ruthlessly ambitious automatons going into politics.
Over the years the political establishment has frowned if a mainstream politician mentions marriage.
The fastest way for a politician to become an elder statesman is to lose an election.
Several things about Reagan are unusual in a public man. He was not a typical politician at all, but a private man in public life.
A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who’s been dead for 15 years.
There are a lot of ways to make a positive impact on the community without necessarily being a politician.
Biden’s first failed run for the presidency was ended by his dishonesty over his academic record and his plagiarism, including the biography and speeches of British Labor politician Neil Kinnock.
Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be.
I’m a politician. What I say is not holy writ.
Entering public life as a woman – be it as a politician, journalist, expert or activist – makes you the target of the most sinister threats, abuse and language.
I think anybody who wants to be president has to be a politician, but I would like to find somebody who’s coming from a loving place instead of a political place.
You know, a statesman is a dead politician.
I’m not a politician. I’m not a career politician.
The one word that no politician will ever speak, is ‘enough.’ Enough.
I would make a horrible politician, because I wouldn’t enjoy my work.
Mr. Obama is the only popular politician left in the world. He would win an election in any one of the G-20 countries, and his fellow world leaders will do anything to take home a touch of that reflected popularity.
For any politician who didn’t enter office a wealthy man, nothing says ‘I take bribes’ like a Rolex watch.
I’m never going to be this polished politician. Nor am I going to be perfect.
Anyone that chooses to be an actor or politician is making a choice to lead their life in the public eye.
If we would vote in mass on the more promising ticket, or, if the two are equally bad, would throw out the party that is in, and wait till the next election and then throw out the other party that is in – then, I say, the commercial politician would feel a demand for good government and he would supply it.
There’s an old joke that politics is Hollywood for ugly people. An awful lot of the press coverage about Washington reads like coverage of Hollywood. Madonna is having some spat with Sean Penn. Who cares? And who cares which politician is mad at that politician?
Churchill the right-winger has been elevated to a status where you can’t criticise him. People from the time remember him as an imperialist, a hard-right politician, very instrumental in the oppression of Ireland and the attempt to defeat the general strike.
Life itself has so much politics, why should I make it my profession? I’m just a politician’s son, not a politician myself. Two politicians, that’s my dad and elder brother, in the family are enough. I’m happy doing my own stuff in Bollywood.
If I were a Democrat, I’d be a career politician, so I’d enrich the Swamp while further bankrupting America.
If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.
A politician is a man who will double cross that bridge when he comes to it.
As a young politician, I voted against the return of Sinai and peace with Egypt. I was mistaken.
Though I’m a congresswoman by title, a politician I’ve never been.
Voting for a politician is very different then saying you like somebody or don’t like somebody.
There is a difference between the typical politician and the statesman. A typical politician is that person who tells people what people want to hear, while the statesman tells people what people need to know.
No politician wants to be challenged. They all say they want to be, but we all want to be anointed.
I’m not a politician.
Few political debates have been as divisive as the European one. I fought as hard as I could on the Remain side, but I believe strongly that as a democrat I should respect the result, and that as a politician it is my duty to make the Brexit settlement as good as possible.
I’m a head coach. I’m not a politician, an activist, or an expert on societal issues.
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
It’s amazing to be nominated for two Brits, and I’m in great company. I’m not a politician out blagging votes, but if people like what I do and feel like giving me a vote for British Breakthrough, imagine how mint it would be if I actually won.
I’ve learned in my years as a journalist that when a politician says ‘That’s ridiculous’ you’re probably on the right track.
No day passes without a Democratic politician, a left-wing commentator, or, if I may be excused a redundancy, a left-wing academic labeling Republicans and conservatives racist.
I was born in 1957 as the second son of the late Sat Paul and Lalita Mittal. My father was a politician and, at one point of time, an MP. A gap of two years separates me from both my elder brother Rakesh and younger sibling Rajan.
Being from a small town my parents wanted me to become an IAS officer but being an actor I lived the life of everyone. I’ve been a cop, a hardliner politician, a magician, a watchman, a don, a smuggler, an officer all in one life!
Political speeches might represent the ideas of the politician at hand, but often times, it’s not written in their own words.
It would probably strike the average politician as absurd to argue that the best way to fix the economy is to stop trying to ‘fix it.’
I may not be a politician, but I will fight to the end of my life for what I believe in.
How is it reasonable that in a country purporting to be a democracy, I am not permitted to speak freely? Why, as a politician, should I be banned from expressing political opinions? Why, as a student of history, can I not present the facts as I see them, without fear of reprisal?
Gaslighting only goes so far. This is a lesson many a politician has learned the hard way.
Questions regarding the future of India are not for me to decide. I am not a citizen of India or an Indian politician.
Running for office, or suggesting you might, is no longer about being a politician but being an independent opinion or sensibility entrepreneur. You’re looking for an audience to identify with you. Rather than trying to convince a majority of the electorate, you’re looking to cull your particular following.
There are two sides, at least, to most political questions, and a politician’s impulse may be to believe that the same holds true for science. Certainly, there are disputes in science. But on the question of climate change, the divide is stark.
If you are a businessman or a politician in Iran, you can get a visa as quickly as you ask for it.
There’s nothing in my background that would have said I was destined to be a senior politician.
A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not stake their own.
A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.
I’ve never been inspired by a politician in France, and I think a lot of my own generation think that way.
You can’t have people making decisions about the future of the world who are scientifically illiterate. That’s a recipe for disaster. And I don’t mean just whether a politician is scientifically literate, but people who vote politicians into office.
Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong.
Now I know what a statesman is; he’s a dead politician. We need more statesmen.
If you want a politician, then you probably shouldn’t vote for me.
Margaret Thatcher was Britain’s most controversial modern politician.
I am not a politician. I am an engineer who has spent most of his career working in factories that manufacture the world’s most advanced devices.
The beauty and riddle in studying the motives of any politician is in trying to decide what is idealism and what is self-interest, and often we are left to conclude that the answer is a mixture of the two.
A politician is a man who will double cross that bridge when he comes to it.
An honest politician has no goodies to toss around. This limits his effectiveness profoundly, because political power in India is dispersed throughout a multi-tiered federal structure; a local official who has not been paid off can sometimes stop a billion-dollar project.
The ideal post-Trump politician will, at the very least, be a deeply serious figure with a strong record of public service behind her.
No politician is threatened by the child protective constituency, because it does not exist.
I do not look like the normal politician. I don’t even look like a normal person.
I don’t want to be a politician. I don’t like politics. It’s petty; it fights dirty.
I’m a politician. I’m not going to get into a whole range of scientific argument with scientists.
I will be the first to admit that getting votes and getting an audience are two different things. For example, a politician really can’t be elected if he’s hated by half the people. A talk show host, however, can be an overwhelming national phenomenon while being hated by half the people.
I am not a politician in prison, I am a political prisoner who uses jail to denounce Spain’s human rights violations.
I really do believe that was what I was put on this planet to do: to give to people and, through my performances, show them another world – in the case of ’24,’ to show them what a politician, black or white, should be. Basically, I wanted to be a service to others.
Any politician who wants to run for president will come to me in a few years.
A businessman can be as military as any politician.
A politician wouldn’t dream of being allowed to call a columnist the things a columnist is allowed to call a politician.
Russ Feingold is a career politician. He’s addicted to it.
Ambition, of course, is the politician’s currency.
I tend to get comfortable with the dialogue and find out who the person is in the script and try to hit that. People are sort of independent of their occupations and their pastimes. You don’t play a politician or a fireman or a cowboy – you just play a person.
If you’re a politician, you can see there might be times when, to secure the greater good, you have to take a backwards step. That is a matter of tactics.
Distracting a politician from governing is like distracting a bear from eating your baby.
If truth be told, certainly culturally, I never felt totally comfortable in the Labour party, because I’ve never really been a massively tribal politician.
Is there any fixed qualification for becoming a journalist who can ask questions? There is no such thing, then why a film actor can’t become a politician?
You slam a politician, you make out he’s the devil, with horns and hoofs. But his wife loves him, and so did all his mistresses.
One thing Jim McGreevey wants the world to know: Leading a double life as a gay man trying to appear straight was easy for him to pull off. He was ‘good’ at it. Not only that – it helped him become a better politician.
I am humbled by the opportunity to serve the people of West Tennessee, but I never intended to become a career politician.
I think it has sullied his presidency. As brilliant a politician as Bill Clinton is, as magnetic a personality as he can be, there is one little screw loose somewhere.
I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher.
I know every politician spins the truth a little.
There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten.
You’re not free if you can’t start a small business because you fear losing your health care, and you’re certainly not free if a male boss or politician prevents you from making decisions about your own reproductive health.
American populist politics has a long tradition, from Andrew Jackson to Huey Long to Joseph McCarthy. But the politician Trump is most like could be George Wallace.
Let me be clear – no one is above the law. Not a politician, not a priest, not a criminal, not a police officer. We are all accountable for our actions.
After establishing myself as politician I will take decision about my future in film industry.
Young people overwhelmingly supported Bernie because he wasn’t the standard politician. He let his hands flail around as he passionately spoke about the issues that sincerely matter to him. He was real.
Trump might think that Fox needs his star power, and on the margins it’s true that Trump appearances and interviews are right-wing ratings boosters. But the network was No. 1 long before he became a politician.
My parents had this extraordinary circle of friends. My father would be photographing somebody every day, someone from the world of the arts, a politician, a musician, a sportsman.
I’m not a politician; I’m a very open, honest guy, and that’s the way it is – that’s the way I am; take it or leave it.
I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.
I have to tell you as a doctor, 25 years of practice, not as a politician using talking points, as somebody who has taken care of Medicare patients, we can make it a lot better.
By failing to read or listen to poets, society dooms itself to inferior modes of articulation: those of the politician, the salesman or the charlatan… In other words, it forfeits its own evolutionary potential.
It’s the way the business works, you’re not just an actor, you’re a diplomat and a publicist and a politician, and there are certain expectations.
We’re in a kind of vicious cycle where the media tell the politicians, and the politicians tell the people, that perception is reality, and the perception of saving dooms a politician. I don’t believe perception is reality, or that all Americans think that.
I accept that as an elected politician I have a number of other tools that I can use to bring about change but I would also say that the Green party remains committed to appropriate non-violent direct action and I think it is a tool in some cases that is legitimate.
I don’t get involved in politics. I think that it is a waste of time and money because very often a politician cannot do much, and if you give him money, you embarrass him, so he can’t do anything.
There’s a certain clubbiness to the idea that you’re an ex-president. You’re no longer a politician. You’re a statesman.
I’m not a politician; I don’t have a well-organised PR machine to craft my every word.
I’m not interested in showing a politician falling over; it’s about the issue and making people think differently about that.
You can gain in your effectiveness as a politician from a wide acquaintance with the world and from a degree of independence that having some outside interests gives.
Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.
I have experienced failure as a politician and for that very reason, I am ready to give everything for Japan.
The relationship between press and politician – protected by the Constitution and designed to be happily adversarial – becomes sour, raw and confrontational.
A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.
Hillary Clinton’s progress as a public figure and politician can, in fact, be indexed perfectly by her relationship to Henry Kissinger.
Getting the truth out of any politician is hard.
We as voters, have long hoped that we would get a businessman instead of a politician in order to help fix America’s problems. Well, I am that businessman.
At the moment I am a little bit politician, yes. I think that could be my next step. It is not because I want power, it is because of what I think I could do for the people.
The more that I know of politics, the more it makes me realize that being a politician is largely useless.
I’ve only very rarely sent a tweet to a politician. I think it could look a little too buddy-buddy if you’re tweeting with people that you cover.
My father is an amazing guy – he’s a total, total patriot… He loves America … and he says what’s on his mind… He’s not like the typical politician who has to pander to everybody.
I don’t think I’m made of the right stuff to be a politician. I think I’m made to be a loose cannon.
It has become commonplace to call Trump a reality TV star. That is said as an aspersion, the way Ronald Reagan was called an actor. But Reagan’s acting experience, his ability to talk to the camera and not yell to the hall, is what helped make him such a good politician. It is the same with Trump.
I’m not a politician, only a singer.
As a survivor, you learn how to talk fast, cut deals, lie when you have to – perfect training to be a politician, you know?
I’ll see Naomi Wolf on television periodically, I have nothing against her and what she says, but I’ll feel that she’s a politician, like she’s got an agenda to get across and that she doesn’t always say what’s really true or exactly what she feels.
If I was a politician right now I would change just about everything.
Mental illness can happen to anybody. You can be a dustman, a politician, a Tesco worker… anyone. It could be your dad, your brother or your aunt.
I am a sportsman and not a politician. I am a sportsman and will always remain one. I am not going to enter politics giving up cricket, which is my life. I will continue to play cricket.
I actually never thought that Barack Obama was anything but a typical Democratic party politician, which to me meant that he was probably in bed with Wall Street.
I think artists throughout the history of time have always been controversial and have been a voice to speak to public culture in a way that a politician can’t because they’ll lose their constituency.
For Ben Carson, Donald Trump, or any other Republican politician to suggest that someone of any faith is unfit for office is out of touch with who we are as a people.
I’ve never met a politician I haven’t wanted to walk away from, and I’ve yet to hear a politician speak and actually believe the words coming out of his mouth.
I spent a weekend in the White House with President Clinton, back in ’99, I guess. We played golf and just hung out and talked on many subjects. I saw him several times subsequently in L.A. He’s the smartest man I ever met, a great politician. Everybody was star struck around him.
I am not a parliamentarian. I am a politician. Some MPs leave and are itching to get back. I don’t feel that. This is just a work environment.
Perhaps it’s time to stop analyzing Sarah Palin as a politician. Maybe, in her own muddled way, she is at last owning up to the fact that she has been miscast. You don’t need politics anymore once you’ve discovered that the alchemy of celebrity has turned you into a 24-carat phenomenon.
I hoped that Obama would be a delivery vehicle for change on issues I care about, but I never expect one politician to be the solution to the diverse array of issues I care about.
While most become star struck by A-list actors, you’ll only see me in awe of leaders effecting change. Politician and diplomat Madeleine Albright, U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. These are my heroes. These are my celebrities.
I can hardly tell you how boring it is to interview almost every politician among the multitudes I have ever interviewed (journalists can’t say this, because if people knew how boring politicians were they wouldn’t read what we write), how dead the conversation feels, how bald, flat, uninteresting the message is.
Well, I couldn’t do the day-to-day stuff of being a politician or anything, but I just think everybody should have an opinion and everybody should vote, and that’s what we’re built on.
We played ten packed-out shows at the Kremlin in just seven days and only discovered later that everyone in the crowd for the first three nights was a politician. They had all come from the nine Soviet time zones just to see us.
I don’t usually make political comments, because I am a businessman, not a politician.
The vast majority of Americans perform sophisticated digital tasks on a daily basis. Grandmas and grandpas e-mail digital photos of their cruise trip and IM their kids in school. So a politician admitting that he or she can’t bother to learn those things indicates a horse-and-buggy mentality.
Under every stone lurks a politician.
A Louisiana politician can’t afford to let his animosities carry him away, and still less his principles, although there is seldom difficulty in that department.
The head of NASA ought to be a space professional, not a politician.
When I think of the person that I thought was Bill Clinton, I think he had genuine remorse. When I think of the person that I now see is 100 percent politician, I think he’s sorry he got caught.
The purpose of a politician is to be a leader. A politician has to lead. Otherwise he’s just a follower.
The antagonism between the poet and the politician has generally been evident in all cultures.
A politician is the devil’s quilted anvil; He fashions all sins on him, and the blows are never heard.
I guess I am a more, I don’t know, consumer-facing politician.
I think, when you become a politician, if you talk about religion too much, you’re pandering or something.
I want to have fun. Life ain’t no dress rehearsal. I want to have fun. I’m a comedian; I ain’t no politician. So everything I do is with humor, with love.
Every time I hear a politician mention the word ‘stimulus,’ my mind flashes back to high school biology class, when I touched battery wires to a dead frog to make it twitch.
I’m glad I’m not a politician.
All women, regardless of her economic status or racial background, have a right to vote, and no politician or regressive law should prevent her from doing so.
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.
I’ve got more in common with a three-toed sloth than I have with Winston Churchill. There is no easy comparison with any modern politician. The more you read about him, the more completely amazed you are about what he did – his energy, his literary fecundity, his ability to work – just unbelievable energy.
A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.
A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.
It’s a tough job being a politician.
I was very fortunate to grow up in France with amazing parents who allowed me to understand the importance of activism. My dad was a politician but he was also an activist, and my mom was a beautiful feminist who took care of others.
Just like a politician’s son or daughter joins politics, it happens in our industry, too.
My funny speech wasn’t funny. That’s not the first time a politician has done that.
It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.
No British politician has ever been more despised by the British people than Margaret Thatcher.
I’m not a politician. My conscience has brought me before you. Give me a chance to serve you.
I never thought about becoming a politician. But during the military dictatorship, my grandfather was put in prison six times and my father twice. If my family and my country didn’t have this history, I might be a professor somewhere today.
In India, people still want an image to connect to and, even if it’s a false one, they will stick to it. We are ready and want to be fooled by someone or the other, be it a baba or a politician.
In my case, I think people are surprised that I’m doing exactly what I said I was going to do when I ran, because that’s not the typical politician.
Joe Lieberman is my least favorite politician of all time, excluding President Franklin Pierce (he just annoys me – not sure why).
In the end, Ted Kennedy was a politician, plain and simple. Yet he embodied how politics and public service can be successfully intertwined. You can’t be a good public servant without being a good politician. Kennedy was both.
A gaffe is when a politician tells the truth.
Our demand for good looks, expressed in the biting comments that ensue when public figures fall short of perfection, puts enormous pressures on these individuals and may screen out the otherwise qualified. If video killed the radio star, it may also be doing away with the homely politician.
I said that if I hadn’t been a politician, I’d have liked to be a barrister, or an academic. My beloved wife said: ‘You’d be a very good barrister and a hopeless academic.’ I said ‘Why?’ She said: ‘Because you’re not an original thinker.’
It must be a judge – never a politician – who decides whether someone is to be locked up.
I would have been a disaster as a career politician. I would never have toed a party line.
The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.
I have experienced failure as a politician and for that very reason, I am ready to give everything for Japan.
To be fair, lying is part and parcel of public life. Every politician has lied about something because they are owned by the special interest groups that finance their elections.
A politician is the devil’s quilted anvil; He fashions all sins on him, and the blows are never heard.
Talking points are a core set of messages an executive or politician utilizes in communicating with stakeholders. It’s a term of art for having an outline of your remarks.
Nearly every politician plagiarizes their speeches, because nearly every politician has a speech writer do the work for them.
If you call your opponent a politician, it’s grounds for libel.
Every politician, in order to be a politician, has to be adept at the art of one and one thing only, and that is lying.
In all the things I’ve gone through as a politician, I have seen that in this system it is really very difficult to make any headway without being somehow tainted. And let me say, ‘Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.’
I’m not a politician. I’m not running for office. I can say what I think.
I think a politician would be very, very cool to play. Or an American musician of some sort, or like an American pioneer like the Dohenys or the Rockefellers or something.
I’ve entered politics the moment I marked my finger with the electoral voting mark. So I’ve entered politics, but I am not a politician. I am doing my duty as a citizen of India.
Generally speaking, politicians are an odd bunch. They seem to have very thick skins and genuinely don’t care what people think. And charm is a very important part of the politician’s armoury. I try to resist that kind of charm.
The issue is not abortion. The issue is whether women can make up their own mind instead of some right-wing pastor, some right-wing politician telling them what to do.
There was a long period where every time someone was shot or stabbed the BBC would call me. I started to think, ‘I’m an actor and a musician, I don’t want to be a politician or a spokesperson.’
Lincoln was a supreme politician. He understood politics because he understood human nature.
I mean if you have ever found a politician who says, ‘No, no, I would do everything exactly as I did,’ then you can tell when he is lying because his lips are moving.
First I’m a sportsman and then a politician.
A politician normally flatters you in your face and criticises you behind your back.
The worst thing for a politician is to try and cling to power by every possible means, and focus only on that.
President Obama is a gifted politician. He is gifted with rhetoric virtuosity. He is gifted with the ability to lie directly to camera without blinking. And he is gifted with some of the most incompetent conservative opposition in the history of the country.
It’s not something that defines me. I’m not a half-Indian politician or a doctor politician or a gay politician for that matter… it is part of my character, I suppose.
I’m not a politician. I’m a businessperson.
The most meaningless term in the English language is ‘I take full responsibility.’ When a politician utters those words it means absolutely nothing.
As a politician, I worked very, very hard in order to maintain the unity of our country. That was my aim.
It’s important for Americans to know what the guys fighting the wars have been experiencing, not just from the perspective of a talking-head politician or a four-star general.
While Lincoln thus became a lawyer, he did not cease to remain a politician.
Most people don’t realize, I really have no faith in politics. I’m not a politician. If I thought you could change human hearts by laws, I would, but I don’t.
A politician finds anything to do with racial problems far more frightening than a gun.
The mark of a true politician is that he is never at a loss for words because he is always half-expecting to be asked to make a speech.
We want to get people of color out to vote, because their vote matters. Every politician tries to capture it. But it’s More Than a Vote because we want to come up with what’s our ask, and hold these politicians’ feet to the fire to make real change.
When you are a politician, it means to work for the benefit of the country, not to stay home. In politics, it ends only when one dies.
I am a businessman, not a politician, but I am also a proud American who would never do anything against my country’s national interest.
A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who’s been dead for 15 years.
I started in London, as a kid. My mother knew I had sort of an inbred talent. She was an actress, so I inherited it from her. But I think I got a lot of it from my grandfather, who was a great politician.
If giving money to a politician prejudiced my ability to think and write honestly, I wouldn’t do it. Fortunately, it doesn’t.
Richard Nixon was a very complex man. I don’t think he was a conservative, nor liberal, not even a moderate. He was a pragmatic politician. He loved politics.
Boris is a naturally energetic and optimistic politician. And when he goes on the campaign trail that just becomes so evident.
People have been saying that Amar Singh is more of an intellectual than a grassroot politician but we will prove them wrong. We will pick up problems, explore them in a realistic way and present them in parliament.
I wondered whether being a Political Science student and a teacher are sufficient qualifications to become a politician and quickly adapt to the complex world of politics.
People are not in a good mood when any politician’s face appears on television.
Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.
I never intended to be a politician or office-seeker.
To every politician who is taking donations from the NRA, shame on you.
I won’t eat anything that has intelligent life, but I’d gladly eat a network executive or a politician.
No one politician should be allowed to judge the guilt, to charge an individual, to judge the guilt of an individual and to execute an individual.
But politics is something that would require so much of me. I’m a public figure now, but as a politician… It’s more likely that I’ll become a sportscaster than a politician.
If Albert Einstein was right, Cal Ripken should have been a CEO or politician rather than a shortstop, because Ripken led by example over and over… and over again.
Having been a journalist for almost 20 years and then becoming a politician has definitely been an interesting and enriching experience for me.
I married a politician. But I thought it would be tough for my children to have two parents as politicians.
The ruling idea of the politician – stated rather bluntly – is that those who are opposed to him exist for the purpose of being made to serve his ends, if he can get power enough in his hands to force these ends upon them.
A politician’s words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.
I am sure I will make a great politician because I love to help people.
I’m not a politician – it’s not my cup of tea.
The entire island knows our father, Fred Hemmings, Jr. – kids, adults, surfers, the governor, grocery clerks, gang members who call our house at night and threaten to kill us as soon as they get out of jail. Fred was a world-champion surfer and is now a well-known, controversial politician.
I realise that, strutting around in power corridors for political coverage, a journalist becomes half a politician.
An intellectual may be interested in ideas and policies for their own sake, but a politician’s interest is exclusively in the question of whether an idea’s time has come.
I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
‘Karmyudh’ is the story of a young, dynamic politician named Yashwant Chauhan and his police officer wife Shivangi. They love each other but have different ideologies. I play the role of Yashwant’s mother who supports her children in times of need and stands by truth.
Our aim should be to not allow a single corrupt politician or even a family member to enter the House.
I am a huge admirer of Franklin Roosevelt’s, and I believe social security has done untold good in alleviating the once-widespread issue of poverty among the elderly. FDR believed in the greatness and generosity of Americans – but he was also a cold-blooded politician.
Any politician is always looking for a format where they can show who they really are, show their true selves.
Crafty politician that he is, Obama was smart enough to set low enough standards for his administration to claim ‘victory’ by the summer of 2011 or so.
I have to remind myself that I am a comic, I’m not a politician.
You don’t need to wear a politician’s garb to serve public.
It’s interesting to play a politician who gets stuff done.
A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.
I’m no politician. I’m an historian who has learned through a lifetime of studying that nothing in the world beats universal education.
As a law-enforcement official, as a politician, you are always going to have in the back of your mind the fear that someone you release will end up committing another crime, potentially a serious crime, during a period when they otherwise would have been incarcerated.
For me, if I was walking down the street and saw a politician, I’d cross the street and walk the other way intentionally, just to not have to talk to them.
If, however, the success of a politician is to be measured by the degree in which he is able personally to influence the course of politics, and attach to himself a school of political thought, then Mr. Mill, in the best meaning of the words, has succeeded.
A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.
Any politician in a democracy has to be mindful of public opinion.
Comparing every black male politician on the scene to Obama is a bit lazy – just because I’m from a similar background and profession, it’s such an easy comparison to make. It’s also quite annoying being viewed through the prism of someone else’s personality and identity, rather than your own.
Before when I said I’m going to get married, I thought my life is going to be peaceful. But then, I ended up with a politician so it slightly got a little complicated.
I am not a politician-type politician and I want to remain that.
Workers who come to the U.S. see their wages and their standard of living boosted sharply simply by crossing the border. That’s a good thing, and one of the best arguments for immigration reform, even if you’ll rarely hear a politician make it.
I am not a politician. I’m an American businessman and entrepreneur that have built two businesses, and I try to play it straight with people.
I want to use my music to deliver a political message and sometimes to denounce, but I don’t want to be a politician.
I may not be a polished politician, but as a lifelong farmer, I know that most problems can be solved with a little common sense.
I am not a politician; I’ve never run for anything in my life. I’m an economist. I’m a broadcaster. I’ve been an adviser. I worked for Ronald Reagan.
Although she was not a politician, my grandmother gave me the most important lesson I’ve ever received and one I carry with me today. That all you need to be successful in life is three things: your wishbone to dream big, your jawbone to speak the truth, and your backbone to persevere through it all.
My father was a professor of political science and also a young politician fighting for democracy in Kenya, and when things got ugly, he went into political exile in Mexico. Then I moved back to Kenya shortly after I turned one, and I grew up in Kenya.
Where I’m an outsider is, I’m not a career politician.
When a politician bends the truth or a CEO breaks a promise, trust takes a beating.
Putin is not a politician. Putin is a KGB agent. And whatever he does is provocations, which KGB is usually involved in.
I’m not a politician. I’m somebody who knows the world can be better, and I’m willing to fight for it.
You should not want to be a politician because you want to be president. You should be a politician because you want to fix the world or represent a movement.
I know I’d be an absolutely horrendous politician.
I do not believe that Obama is smarter than anybody else. I do not believe he has cut a new path and is a politician unlike any we’ve ever seen regarding his intellect. I don’t believe any of this hocus-pocus. I didn’t believe it when they said it about Hillary, Smartest Woman in the World.
I am not a career politician, even though this is my 12th year in the United States House of Representatives.
I don’t apologize for supporting Trump. He said all the right things, and nobody else would even say it. I suppose it’s possible that another politician who really meant it would come along. There’s Kris Kobach, Tom Cotton, Jeff Sessions… there are probably a handful of politicians.
If you are a politician who styles yourself as a model of family virtue but are having a secret affair, you have no right to expect it to remain secret.
First and foremost, when I think of him – I’m prejudiced; I worked for the guy for six and a half years – when I think of him, I think of him first and foremost as an idea politician.
A politician will do anything to keep his job – even become a patriot.
My seriousness as a politician will be seen from what I speak from a political stage and say in press conferences. If my comic flavor shows there, I cannot be taken as a serious politician.
The politician’s promises of yesterday are the taxes of today.
ECW was the most fun for me artistically. And then, WWE, it was also very fun, but that was part of it. It was also a very stressful, monotonous schedule. There was a lot of politics, adjusting to that, and I am not a politician, and I don’t play those games. So that was very frustrating for me as well.
The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of trouble to imagine an ending to his sentence: and if he stopped short? His entire policy would be jeopardized!
It will take some time before a politician will capture the imagination of the American people and have the vision and understanding to do what is necessary for a better future for the people of America and the world.
We have a myth of the classless society. You won’t hear an American politician apart from Bernie Sanders talk about the working class. We are all middle class, apparently.
I have a more direct avenue to expression as an artist than I ever would as a politician.
I am not a consensus politician… This is something that is really very un-Dutch.
We moved around a lot when I was growing up. I was always the new kid in class, but I was good at making friends. With an upbringing like that, I was either going to become an actor or a politician. Thank God I became an actor! I’m not cut out for politics.
Being a host or a guest or a pundit, you really want to say something that’s interesting and potentially provocative, that’s going to stick with people. The last thing you want to say when you’re a politician is something provocative.
It’s one thing if a politician in a small country says a little bit of torturing is good to do. There is a qualitative difference… when it’s a candidate to run a superpower.
If a politician is a successful administrator, certainly he has got every right to administer cricket.
I’m not a politician, I’m not in Congress. You know what I mean? I’m just a black girl that makes YouTube videos and tries to teach dialogue in campuses so they think before stepping into a voting booth.
Raining on parades requires no skill or effort on the part of a politician.
I am not a professional politician.
The question is not whether personal spiritual beliefs shape a politician’s values and policies, but what spiritual beliefs mold those values and policies.
The idea of the celebrity politician is nothing new, and depending on one’s perspective, either President Obama or Sarah Palin are the country’s first celebrity politicians.
I read a lot of history. It has taught me that any politician has to overcome difficult periods in order to achieve their goals.
Actually, I never thought of me being president of Brazil. First of all, I’m not a politician. I never have been, and I think I’m a very unlikely person for this kind of job because of my frankness. I’ve never dealt with political parties. I have no connections with political parties. So, I don’t think so.
The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.
As compared with the college politician, the real article seems like an amateur.
I’m an actor I’m not a politician. I always kick myself when I talk too much about family, or personal things.
I see myself as a former politician, and in that capacity, I say to other politicians, ‘Hold back.’
America is just the country that how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society.
I’m not a politician, I’m not an ideologue, I’m not an organizer anymore. I’m a human being sharing ideas, and those ideas have to feel fresh and from my heart and my head, and I have to feel it. You can’t force that feeling.
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
I just think, you know, when we talk about a politician, I think a person has to be themselves. Let the voters see the real you.
Donald Trump is not a politician and has not been around the Hill like many of the other candidates were.
When I’m not a politician, I’ll be dead.
One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one.
Corruption is when a politician uses public funds to deliver pistachio ice cream to his home and transfer garden furniture to his Caesarea villa, then requesting that the expenses be covered for the water in his pool and fights to get a private jet.
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.
No politician has ever used his faith to a greater result for all of humanity, and that is why, in his day, Wilberforce was a moral hero far more than a political one.
There’s no smarter politician out there than Bill Clinton.
Trump brings rhetoric and reality together in a cartoon caricature of a Republican politician that anyone can understand. That gives him a vital role in history. He is the perfect exorcist to drive a stake through the heart of the modern Republican Party.
I am not a full-time politician but a ‘sanyasi’ who took the path of politics to serve the masses.
A consensus politician is someone who does something that he doesn’t believe is right because it keeps people quiet when he does it.
I’m not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I’m running because I wanted to serve.
I get no respect. The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I would be honest.
I’m not a politician and don’t want any part of politics.
I’ve had great pleasure meeting the likes of Newt Gingrich and having a chat with the fellow on a staircase. I found him completely dishonest and totally likeable, because he doesn’t care! He knows what a politician is, and he’s a perfect embodiment of one.
I am not, never have been, and never will be a politician. But I want to tell you the United States has always been proud of having the support of the United Kingdom, of keeping Britain in Europe. We need Britain in Europe.
I’m not a politician. I think that uniquely qualifies me to become president of the U.S.
Appearances are not truth. But every politician knows that his or her image, as well as his or her actions, can make the difference between failure and success.
Mr Trump is a different type of leader not burdened by rigid ideology. He does not think like a politician, nor does he talk or sanctimoniously moralise like one, making him an easy target for demonisation. However, he is an empathetic person who recognises the pain of America’s middle class.
No mainstream politician believes in open borders, but a policy that uses its prolonged treatment of detained people as an ongoing deterrent to others has a deep flaw at its heart.
Jayalalithaaji was not just a politician: she was the messiah of the masses.
Nixon, with his mellifluous baritone, was a great politician for radio but creepy on TV.
Cameron’s resignation really was the death knell of the Conservative Party as we knew it because that’s something a proper Conservative politician cannot do: renounce leadership at the moment when it’s needed.
I’ve never wanted to become a politician, an interior decorator, I’ve never wanted to speculate and make a load of money. I just wanted this.
Rajeev Gandhi was prime minister. We’ve had a long family relationship with them. He asked me to fight an election, and I went ahead and did it. But I was not qualified as a politician, and I am not going back there again.
It would be refreshing to have a politician try to defend guns without any reference to the Second Amendment, but on the merits of guns.
I would love to see a politician who really loves his country and is working for the people and not for him or herself.
I’ve been trying to keep the private life private. Not being savvy or trained on how to do good interviews like a politician, I thought it was wiser to follow my mother’s advice: If you have nothing good to say, don’t say anything at all.
The only politician in my family was my grandfather’s grandfather, who was the mayor of Winnipeg from Jan. 1, 1917, until Jan. 5, 1917, because he lost the recount. So he was mayor of Winnipeg for four days.
Hip-hop has done so much for racial relations, and I don’t think it’s given the proper credit. It has changed America immensely. I’m going to make a very bold statement: Hip-hop has done more than any leader, politician, or anyone to improve race relations.
A woman must combine the role of mother, wife and politician.
I have, never, ever once, ever gotten anything from any politician I’ve ever helped. Not one thing.
Where is the politician who has not promised to fight to the death for lower taxes- and who has not proceeded to vote for the very spending projects that make tax cuts impossible?
Yes I am a politician – I will promise you anything your little electorate heart desires – because you are my constituents, you are the informed voting public, and because I have no intention of keeping any promise that I make.
I’m really not a politician: I don’t have a political background, though I’ve been an activist fighting for my community for years. So I had to learn a lot about my government.
Bill Clinton was a brilliant politician. If President Obama was a brilliant politician he would have come out before the election and said ‘Hey we’re gonna cut taxes, grow the economy, what I’m doing’s not working, and we’re gonna change course’ like Clinton did.
I am not going to be the sort of politician who does all that stuff about their private life.
Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.
We’ve gotten to a point where you can’t be a politician and actually say what you’re thinking because someone’s gonna get offended, and God forbid, like, everyone’s so sensitive now, it’s ridiculous.
The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision.
I’m not a politician and my other habits are good.
That was the miracle of Abraham Lincoln, politician. He pursued the high purpose of moving justice forward via the low arts of patronage and patronization. Indeed, in a democracy, it is usually the only way great deeds are done.
A politician and a government should be judged by one way only: on the record of what you do or did, not on what you say.
My definition of a redundancy is an air-bag in a politician’s car.
I’m an actor, I’m not a politician.
In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws.
As a politician, you have to deal with someone wanting you to fail every day. I think I prefer being in a situation where generally people are rooting for me, and if they aren’t rooting for me, they aren’t out there to see my downfall. I respect the people who have the stomach for it.
