Top 1200 Crooked Politicians Quotes & Sayings - Page 13

Politicians have been the primary hurdle to reforms, and corruption is the center of the problem.

The Blair government has lowered the standing of politics and politicians in our country.

Faith in technocrats over politicians is not a trend from which Britain is exempt.

Old politicians chew on wisdom past, And totter on in business to the last.

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

There's only one honest way to measure affluence; that's by comparing the capability of producing goods and services with the desire of people to enjoy them. It's a lousy, crooked trick to compare this society with China or some such place and then say we're affluent. It's a piece of intellectual crookery even to compare this economy with itself ten or twenty years ago. We should compare what we have with what we could have.

Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.

In the very end, civilizations perish because they listen to their politicians and not to their poets.

Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

It is not through any combinations of politicians that the outcome of an electoral campaign is decided.

Delhi has statues and busts of so many politicians. But what about our artistes?

I won't raise taxes, because I do not want to punish the people for the politicians' mistakes.

Too many terms corrupts politicians so they only want to be reelected.

Politicians generally do the right thing only when all other options are exhausted.

If you add up all the promises any politicians makes, the math doesn't work.

You need to pray. Donald Trump is who he is - and that's one thing that politicians are not. It's all "game playing."

Sometimes it's more important to change politicians than light bulbs.

If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be

The good and the bad news is that politicians rarely do what they say they are going to do when they campaign.

I wish politicians would put the environment at the centre of every agenda.

Political Economy means that everybody except politicians must be economical.

Unfortunately, some politicians think they are immune from allegations of ethics abuse.

Freedom of life does not mean disorder of life, does not mean chaos, and just everyone doing anything he wants. That is not the freedom of life. The tree, when you give it a chance, protect it when it is young, will grow straight, because it has developed its own resistance; but the moment you make it delicate, then it gets crooked.

Democratic politicians want to solve the crisis of poor education by taking more of your money and using it to reduce classroom sizes in the government schools. Republican politicians want to solve the crisis by taking more of your money to provide vouchers to a handful of the poorest students in each area, paying for a part of the tuition expense at private schools. But before long this 'reform' would make those private schools indistinguishable from the government schools ... Vouchers are an excellent way for the government to increase control over private schools.

It is clear I was never the Pretty Girl. I had my two front teeth knocked out when I was 10 and didn't fix them until I was 19. I have a crooked smile and a nose that looks like it's been broken 12 times but never has been. My nose was always red, so people called me Rudolph. My whole face is off-center.

As far as informing the headmaster, Harry had no idea where Dumbledore went during the summer holidays. He amused himself for a moment, picturing Dumbledore, with his long silver beard, full-length wizard's robes, and pointed hat, stretched out on a beach somewhere, rubbing suntan lotion onto his long crooked nose.

I'm going to focus on people and what they need, not on name calling between politicians.

I’ve always been interested in leaders and rule breakers and artists and politicians.

When politicians deny anything fiercely, there is a good chance that it will happen.

Politicians can do more funny things naturally than I can think of to do purposely

Politicians often reveal most about themselves in unguarded moments.

Our politicians don't say anything anymore: they just refute and assert.

Politicians don't like tough coverage, and their protectors try to destroy the messengers.

Politicians shouldn't spend most of their time in office trying to get reelected.

I feel pretty disillusioned about the politics and politicians in this country - and angry.

The biggest problem was the politicians knew nothing about fighting a war.

I believe there should be political consequences for politicians who commit voter suppression.

All politicians, no matter how gifted, ultimately depend on circumstances for their success.

Labour politicians for generations have fought to bring democracy to the House of Lords.

The more I watch politicians in action, it just makes me angry.

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers.

The short memories of the American voters is what keeps our politicians in office.

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

When I see this, you know, 'Crooked Hillary,' or I see the, 'Lock her up,' it's just ridiculous. It is ridiculous. But I just - you know - it is beneath the character of the kind of dialogue we should have. Because we got real serious problems to solve. And look, most of us stopped the name-calling thing about fifth grade.

She that would raise a noble love must find Ways to beget a passion for her mind; She must be that which she to the world would seem, For all true love is grounded on esteem: Plainness and truth gain more a generous heart Than all the crooked subtleties of art.

God does not have a fixed plan that he must carry out; on the contrary, he has many different ways of finding man and even of turning his wrong ways into right ways...The feast of Christ the King is therefore not a feast of those who are subjugated, but a feast of those who know that they are in the hands of the one who writes straight on crooked lines.

It is largely on television and radio that real probing of what politicians are up to has to happen.

Politicians are strong to the extent that they are ready to take serious decisions and fight for it.

Only those who vote politicians into power have the right to depose them.

I'm very much aware of the need for politicians to be careful with language as well as what they do.

People approach politicians with lot of hopes, particularly if they are elected representatives.

The politicians were talking themselves red, white and blue in the face.

As politicians we have to react to the fact that many people do not feel that they can relate to the EU.

Ignorance allowed politicians to fool people and bad administrators to be re-elected.

If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.

You can't get something for nothing. Everybody remembers this except politicians.

Strange people like chefs, musicians, and politicians affect me.

The political process consists entirely of politicians talking out of their butts.

Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.

Politicians promise you heaven before election and give you hell after