Top 1200 Crooked Politicians Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

I think most Americans don't really care about politicians bickering in Washington.

I admire politicians. It is a really tough assignment, and I would fall at the first fence.

Politicians, ugly buildings, and whores all get respectable if they last long enough.

I think politicians who suggest they are uninterested in the support of newspapers are not being straight with people.

Politicians make decisions in favor of their interest groups or their supporters back in their hometowns.

Socialism is humanity's second nature. All politicians do is turn human vice into votes.

There is no visible sign that the current politicians in the US are willing to see the need for change.

Very few politicians in Washington really represent the interests of many people.

I always think politicians and even my dentist have more egos than actors.

Politicians often claim secrecy is necessary for good governance or national security.

It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.

Political books are so often written from the perspective of the politicians, not from the point of view of the people.

In Massachusetts they [Democratic politicians] steal, in California they feud, and in New York they lie.

Right, you've got a crooked sort of cross..." He consulted Unfogging the Future. "That means you're going to have 'trials and suffering' — sorry about that — but there's a thing that could be the sun... hang on... that means 'great happiness'... so you're going to suffer but be very happy..." "You need your Inner Eye tested, if you ask me," said Ron, and they both had to stifle their laughs as Professor Trelawney gazed in their direction.

I think 'community,' in the sense in which politicians use, it is largely a cant term.

I do not admire politicians; but when they are excellent in their way, one cannot help allowing them their due.

Justices are not politicians. They don't run on a political platform, and senators should not ask them to do so.

We have at least learned that the offspring of presidents don't necessarily make good politicians themselves.

The politicians in Washington just had no idea about the complexity of the situation in South Vietnam.

Politicians are often tempted to deploy history as a weapon against each other.

Politicians need human misery. ... Government's a disease masquerading as its own cure.

Ideas are the only things that count, and politicians are, for the most part, pretty much irrelevant.

Among politicians and businessmen, *Pragmatism* is the current term for 'To hell with our children.'

Since there are no absolutes, when it's convenient, you change the rules. Do we know any politicians that have done that?

If politicians lived on praise and thanks they'd be forced into some other line of business.

Tax dollars are not politicians' personal wallets, and they should stop treating them as such.

When you hear politicians who won't fix the broken system talk about expanding it, don't buy it.

Don't listen to the politicians, always look at the artists, they're the first to tell us where we're going.

Politicians should be judged on their actions, rather than necessarily their views on scripture.

It is unfortunate that people believe that in order to democratise something you have to get politicians out of the system.

I wonder if politicians know less about the land, now that they campaign by air.

Politicians always do a two-step, depending on what their district politics looks like.

I feel sorry for many politicians we expect them to be completely consistent and moralised when we're not.

Few politicians are good at taking the high ground and throwing themselves off it.

Somehow politicians have become convinced that negative campaigning pays off in elections.

I don't subscribe to the theory that all politicians are crap. I think the 'cool people' often take that position.

I sleep well. It's the politicians who are to blame for failing to come to an agreement and resorting to violence.

The tendency for politicians to claim credit for favorable news is as natural as flatulence in cows.

One must bear in mind that the expansion of federal activity is a form of eating for politicians.

I think politicians sometimes badly underestimate the true feelings that Americans have for the land.

A lot of people have the expectation that politicians shouldn't just disappear into the woodwork even if they didn't win the election.

Noir has always shown that greed and chaos are as close as the company we work for or the politicians we vote for.

Sometimes you get politicians who dig their feet into the sand and aren't willing to listen to another voice.

This may be news to Big Money politicians, but they actually don't own our votes.

Big Money politicians do not have a new form of entitlement. They do not own our votes.

Among politicians, I would say Sonia Gandhi is not exactly a cartoonist's delight.

One big mistake of many politicians is to have no understanding for the real situation of people in their country.

I get the feeling a lot of politicians are there to help themselves financially, first and foremost.

Politicians - well, first of all, they should get rid of nuclear weapons, I think.

It's very useful when politicians have doubts because there are so many choices to be made in the world.

I'm in England so often I haven't really left, but Americans aren't at all like they're misrepresented through their politicians.

[Donald Trump] hedging his bets because he's used to buying politicians.

We have souls. Sure we do. Otherwise we'd do bad things all the time. You know, like politicians.

Politicians do not enter into wars lightly. It is usually the military themselves who are keener to become involved.

Love yourself and be awake- Today, tomorrow, always. First establish yourself in the way, Then teach others, And so defeat sorrow. To straighten the crooked You must first do a harder thing- Straighten yourself. You are your only master. Who else? Subdue yourself, And discover your master.

'Hamlet' is a play of many strange parts, with ghosts and players, politicians and clowns.

I look for people who work to solve problems and help colleagues, I sack politicians.

We must keep in mind that where the road is crooked, God makes it straight, and where our hearts are wounded, God makes us whole. As we open our hearts in purity and simplicity, admitting to God that we are completely powerless in the area of our problem, His illumination redeems us.

Public service is a part of who I am, having grown up in a family of politicians.

I feel sorry for many politicians... we expect them to be completely consistent and moralised when we're not.