Top 1200 Career Politicians Quotes & Sayings

People have decided that career politicians may be part of the problem, not part of the solution.

Trump is the candidate giving voice to untold millions of fed-up Americans witnessing a purposeful destruction of our economy and the equal opportunity for success that made America exceptional, we're watching career politicians throw away our kids' future through bankrupting public budgets and ripping open our porous borders which, obvious to all us non-politicians, puts us at great risk.

Career politicians manufacture hogwash.

Career politicians do not have the courage to prioritize spending and say no to demanding special interest groups who do not reflect the best interests of the country.

People are fed up of career politicians that keep changing like chameleons.

The fact is that in England so many of our politicians are career politicians - they've always been politicians since they left their education. And in the old days of course politicians used to be fish mongers or doctors or whatever. They'd lived life. These days, power seems to go to the hands of people that that's all they've done. And I'm not sure that's a good thing, because it does remove them from the realities of life.

For too long, Missouri has been run by career politicians, owned by corrupt consultants, high-paid lobbyists and special interests.

One can say all they want about politicians, but politicians to other politicians, their word is almost always good.

People are fed up with the career politicians who created this mess or failed to prevent it and neither was acceptable, and the only way we could change that was by sending a different type of person to Washington.

I think that the politicians who were beaten by Donald Trump and then endorsed him, that's something that they will carry and should carry, for the duration of their career.

What we do not need are career politicians that simply run for office to be somebody with a big title. We don't need that.

It's time to replace career politicians with citizen's politicians. It's time to elect people who are going to stand up to the Washington elite and stand up to a White House and Congress hell-bent on ramming socialism down our throat.

I've always wondered why European politicians as a group seemed brighter than American politicians as a group. Maybe it's becausemany American politicians have the race issue to fall back on. They become lazy, suspicious of innovative ideas, and as a result American institutions atrophy.

The only people who say worse things about politicians that reporters do are other politicians.

I am fed up with career politicians. I am tired of going into the voting booth and holding my nose to pick the least worst candidate on the ballot.

The career politicians down in Washington don't want to be held accountable.

Hoosiers sent me to Washington to help President Trump drain the swamp, and it starts with cutting out generous taxpayer-funded perks that keep career politicians in D.C.

Im looking for leaders who are going to go to Washington for a season, not career politicians. People who understand that the strength of America comes from the private sector, not Washington, D.C.

Politics is a herd mentality. Politicians don't really lead. Politicians reflect what they think is consensus opinion.

I am not the candidate of career politicians in Washington.

I'll spend whatever it takes to get my message out and to be competitive with these career politicians. I'm not going to take a penny of special interest money.

If politicians in a state block education choice, it means those politicians do not support equal opportunity for all kids.

It's time to replace career politicians with citizen's politicians. It's time to elect people who are going to stand up to the Washington elite and stand up to a White House and Congress hell-bent on ramming socialism down our throat

Too many of the career politicians, the established politicians in Washington on both sides of the aisle, are representing their party more than the people. And no matter what the media says, the ballot box will determine what people truly believe.

I am cynical about politicians. My experience of politicians has been thoroughly negative. I have found that politicians are people that can not be taken at face value. There are very few politicians I have been impressed with.

I like lots of career politicians; I'm not against all career politicians.

Indians mock their corrupt politicians relentlessly, but they regard their honest politicians with silent suspicion. The first thing they do when they hear of a supposedly 'clean' politician is to grin. It is a cliche that honest politicians in India tend to have dishonest sons, who collect money from people seeking an audience with Dad.

The Senate is where the issues are, and most people there are career politicians.

Politicians detest self-sufficient citizens. Politicians need to be needed. When we get socialized medicine, you will be completely dependent upon politicians for your medical care, as Canadians are today. That's why if you need an MRI in Canada, you have to wait three months - unless you pay certain kinds of homage to the right politicians.

We are not politicians. We made our revolution to get the politicians out.

Establishment, career politicians are about saying one thing and doing another.

The traits in career politicians the public detests most are produced when ego triumphs over principle.

The United States Senate is already chock full of career politicians and insiders who fall in line for political expediency and refuse to stand up and speak out for the American people.

I'm focused on bringing real change to Washington because the career politicians have screwed things up so badly.

What's wrong with politics in the celebrity billionaire analysis is politicians. Populism is not so much a cry for economic equality, or even a disdain for elites, but a mass revulsion against the inauthenticity of politicians. Celebrities are real celebrities, politicians are fake ones.

Give politicians power and it certainly will be abused eventually - if not by today's politicians, then by their successors.

I just think people are fed up with people who are career politicians who don't stand for anything.

The career politicians in Washington had transformed a government "for the people" into a government for themselves and for special interests.

It is up to the historians, not politicians, to judge what happened in the past. Politicians look into the future.

Our message of a balanced budget amendment, term limits to end career politicians, and a real plan to keep America safe is resonating with voters.

Career politicians like Marco Rubio worry more about keeping the job than doing the job and are constantly looking for their next political promotion.

Politicians are good listeners. Because if they're not, they aren't politicians for very long.

Diplomats make it their business to conceal the facts, and politicians violently denounce the politicians of other countries.

I'm not a career politician. I spent 30 years in business. I can tell you that people in California have had it with career politicians: they are done.

Aren't you tired of these career politicians on the left side of the aisle moralizing about the greed of the 'wealthy' when these same politicians habitually buy votes with borrowed dollars? Who are they to lecture those who actually produce and contribute to the economy?

I answer that question by saying: 'Why Meg Whitman' which is: I'm not a career politician. I spent 30 years in business. I can tell you that people in California have had it with career politicians: they are done.

We've had enough career politicians in Helena who think the people are here to serve them. It's supposed to be the other way around.

When a social movement adopts the compromises of legislators, it has forgotten its role, which is to push and challenge the politicians, not fall in meekly behind them. We who protest...are not politicians. We are citizens. Whatever politicians may do, let them first feel the full force of citizens who speak for what is right, not for what is winnable, in a shamefully timorous Congress.

I think most politicians have almost no understanding of economics; otherwise, they wouldn't have become politicians.

There's no pleasing the British, or winning their favor. They simply hate politicians. All politicians. Hatred goes with politicians like mint sauce with lamb. It's as old as Parliaments.

At the end of the day, European politicians face the ballot box, as do all of us politicians.

Politicians have always been required to be fake, but now the career havoc wrought by a stray, flying sound bite means they have to sustain their fakeness all the time.

In 2010, there were 57 lawyers, zero manufacturers, and way too many career politicians in the United States Senate.

The game of political music chairs and finger-pointing by career politicians and agency bureaucrats needs to end.

the struggle for the right to become politicians in itself made women into politicians.

[I support] term limits for career politicians and the death penalty for career politicians.

If career politicians had the solutions, we wouldn't be in the mess that we are.

The public think the politicians don't know or care about their lives; and the politicians feel misunderstood.

If we meet an honest and intelligent politician, a dozen, a hundred, we say they aren't like politicians at all, and our category of politicians stays unchanged; we know what politicians are like.

There are politicians who seethe with ambition all the time, and there are a lot of other politicians who don't. I'm in the second category, that's all.