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If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.
Proximity to power has an unsurprising ability to mutate a politician's spinal cord into bright yellow jelly.
There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten.
I am neither a sociologist nor a politician. All I can do is imagine for myself what the future will be like.
The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician's life.
I know politicians - I know politicians, believe it or not, better than you [Ted Cruz] do. And it's not good.
I think, any politician, you have to hold them to their word. And conservatives run on fiscal conservatism. .
I am satisfied that all politicians were meant to be journalists and all journalists meant to be politicians.
Actors, politicians, and writers-all of us are but creatures of the hour. Long-lasting fame comes to but few.
I have experienced failure as a politician and for that very reason, I am ready to give everything for Japan.
Politics is a game and a profession. It doesn't really serve the people the politicians are supposed to serve.
I don't know a politician who enjoys fundraising. The system is such that the American people have lost faith.
Power is a drug on which the politicians are hooked. They buy it from the voters, using the voters' own money.
When you define the audience, the performer becomes what the audience wants. Politicians do that all the time.
I'm an actor I'm not a politician. I always kick myself when I talk too much about family, or personal things.
I completely agree when there are actors who say, "Actors should stay out of politics. We're not politicians."
politics were as bad as mathematics, and that the mission of politicians seemed to be calling each other names
Contrary to what people think, I'm no politician, and when I have something to say I say it through my movies.
I suppose it's easy to play a hypocritical politician with a smiling face; it's also quite gratifying to play.
The good and the bad news is that politicians rarely do what they say they are going to do when they campaign.
The politicians of New York...see nothing wrong in the rule, that to the victor belong the spoils of the enemy
When politicians rush to fix things, it's a sure sign that either the intended patient is dead or fully healed.
I have grown used to the fact that public repentance is the most unacceptable option for the modern politician.
I think politicians get hamstrung by the nature of politics when the private sector can really do great things.
In Mexico an air conditioner is called a politician because it makes a lot of noise but doesn't work very well.
The politician is the creature of the public sentiment -- never goes ahead of it because he depends on it . . .
I don't like politicians, and I don't like politics. I definitely don't want to be associated with any of them.
Nothing corrupts a politician quite as much as friendship. Good politicians don't bribe; they make us like them.
Personally, I feel that it is the most contemptible thing for a politician to seek personal gains from politics.
Politicians will not put forth programs aimed at the problems of poor blacks while their turnout remains so low.
Dad decided not to vote for Donner after all. He didn't vote for anyone. He said politicians turned his stomach.
I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.
One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are.
The entertainment person gets a certain credibility, and the politician gets a certain notoriety. I'm against it.
Why is it that when people have no capacity for private usefulness they should be so anxious to serve the public?
It is up to the historians, not politicians, to judge what happened in the past. Politicians look into the future.
For every alleged benefit that the politicians confer upon us, they must necessarily deprive us of something else.
I don't subscribe to the theory that all politicians are crap. I think the 'cool people' often take that position.
A politicians willingness to listen to good advice rises in inverse proportion to how badly he thinks he is doing.
A valuable qualification of a modern politician seems to be a capacity for concealing or explaining away the truth.
There are some politicians who, if their constituents were cannibals, would promise them missionaries in every pot.
Nothing is more dangerous that the politician who uses politics as a surrogate for an unsatisfactory personal life.
The way I approach stardom and the show, I'm like a politician. I'm an elected late-night official to do your work.
A politician knows that his friends are not always his allies, and that his adversaries are not always his enemies.
Accusing a politician of being politically expedient is like accusing water of being wet or circles for being round.
The upside of being in the closet is that you develop skills of duplicity, which are great for big-time politicians.
One of the problems in Washington is there are far too many politicians who desperately just want to get re-elected.
Men must be aggressive for what is right if government is to be saved from men who are aggressive for what is wrong.
In a society like ours, politics is improvisation. To the artful dodger rather than the true believer goes the prize.
A politician weakly and amiably in the right, is no match for a politician tenaciously and pugnaciously in the wrong.