Top 1200 Crooked Politicians Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

If you watch the news, you see politicians use human vulnerabilities to get in and earn people's trust.

I think that if we don't get these politicians to come together we face the most predictable economic crisis in history.

There will be more coming afterwards if we don't re-empower politicians to get organized and work together.

I mostly like politicians. Very few of them are evil, although quite a lot are delusional.

There is something about you that makes me feel terribly wicked. You make me want to do shocking things. Maybe it's because you're so proper. Your necktie is never crooked, and your shoes are always shiny. And your shirts are so starchy. Sometimes when I look at you, I want to tear off all your buttons. Or set your trousers on fire. I've so often wondered-are you ticklish, my lord?

Irish politicians are very accessible to the public, just the messenger boys for the local constituency.

There are some politicians who, if their constituents were cannibals, would promise them missionaries in every pot.

Let's treat politicians like Twinkies. They have to disclose their ingredients - i.e., where their money is from - but beyond that, let the buyer beware.

I sympathize with politicians who have to watch every syllable they utter for fear it will be misused by somebody with an agenda.

The IPCC summary for policymakers is used to scare politicians and goad the public into action. The UN is all about politics.

The Bowery station on the J line is what happens to a neighborhood once politicians realize the people who live there don't vote.

Politicians will pander to special-interest groups eager to gain at the public expense.

I have come to believe that we must trust women and families - not politicians - to make the best decisions for their lives.

As politicians we have to make very difficult decisions and one...is when freedom of speech actually insults public safety.

The idea that money is corrupting innocent politicians would be laughable if it did not lead to such dangerous legislation.

Our good nature and endearing qualities will not arouse the answers to our prayers. Rather it is our mischievous, dishonest attributes that provide the master keys to heaven. When we identify and work to transform our self-centered qualities and crooked characteristics, the key turns and the gates unlock. Blessings and good fortune are now free to rain down upon us.

Up through and including Lincoln, American politicians nursed a fantasy of repatriating blacks to Africa.

One of the problems in Washington is there are far too many politicians who desperately just want to get re-elected.

One of the benefits of working outside the U.K. is that I don't have to keep fielding media/politicians' enquiries about 'Britishness' and its ills.

All of the promises of politicians, generals, madmen, and crusaders that war can create peace have yet to be borne out.

The two most charming politicians who stand out are Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Pranab Mukherjee.

Politicians against gay marriage now, are the future villains of our American History books.

As we're learning with Hillary Clinton, only guilty politicians try to hide the truth from voters.

Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good.

Smoking calms me down. It's enjoyable. I don't want politicians deciding what is exciting in my life.

a fair degree of literacy of speech ... is increasingly rare in politicians and not necessarily regarded as an asset.

Today many of these selfish politicians are preying on the nation itself - (belching corruption and farting discontent!)

All politicians, even the most idealistic ones, are looking for money, sucking up to rich people.

Actors, politicians, and writers-all of us are but creatures of the hour. Long-lasting fame comes to but few.

Women politicians in Pakistan have to deal with severe sexual harassment within their own parties and from their opponents.

Among the myrtles the mantids moved, lightly, carefully, swaying slightly, the quintessence of evil. They were lank and green, with chinless faces and monstrous globular eyes, frosty gold, with an expression of intense, predatory madness in them. The crooked arms, with their fringes of sharp teeth, would be raised in mock supplication to the insect world, so humble, so fervent, trembling slightly when a butterfly flew too close.

The trouble for lots of politicians is they worry so much about everybody liking every single thing that they do.

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

The problem is government spends too much. So raising taxes is what politicians do, instead of reducing spending.

In real life, what scares me is politicians, corporations and people that think they know what the world should be.

I created a weapon to defend the borders of my motherland. It's not my fault that it's being used where it shouldn't be. The politicians are more to blame for this.

politics were as bad as mathematics, and that the mission of politicians seemed to be calling each other names

When politicians don black robes and seize powers they do not have, they should be called out for what they are - usurpers and petty tyrants.

Politicians were mostly people who'd had too little morals and ethics to stay lawyers.

Nothing undermines faith in our political system than politicians going back on their word.

All politicians should have 3 hats - one to throw into the ring, one to talk through, and one to pull rabbits out of if elected.

Scholars who become politicians are usually assigned the comic role of having to be the good conscience of state policy.

The Umbrella Movement can be described as an encyclopedia. Politicians and student leaders wrote it, and let the masses read it and react passively.

When you notice that politicians and the media are after you, it makes you all the more determined to find out the truth.

We vote for politicians with lower voices, it's true, because we associate depth with power and with authority.

I will say this: in a state of emergency operations decisions are taken by the commissioner. It's not for politicians to interfere.

Politicians would only move beyond gestures once there was a critical mass of informed citizens.

Too many politicians are so worried about getting re-elected that they fear taking an unpopular position. I don't.

There is nothing that politicians like better than handing out benefits to be paid for by someone else.

Interviewing politicians and movie stars, you know what you'll get. I like the people-stories better.

Big institutions in this imperial state, in this evil US empire, prepare their politicians to become criminals.

Cats and dogs believe politicians are like cemetery caregivers; they are on top of everyone, but nobody listens.

International politics attracts politicians who talk a good game, but whose achievements are often slender.

I don't really want to hang out with politicians. I'd rather go straight to hell, and not collect $200.

I never wanted to be aligned to a mature group because they go off and become politicians and stuff.

Politicians are like bad horsemen who are so preoccupied with staying in the saddle that they can't bother about where they're going.

I notice anytime anything wrong happens, establishment politicians like to say the Russians.

Politicians must let voters know what they think about issues before the election. Judges should not.

It was amazing to see Donald Trump on the night before election, who had been describing Hillary Clinton as crooked and corrupt, in a matter of a moment, was describing her as a fine and dedicated public servant, once he had won the election. So, there was a kind of barbarism all the way around, I think, in this political campaign, in which the issues really were boiled down to very small sound bites.

Whatever politicians, activists and manipulators propose, it is the phlegmatic, indifferent, ingrained electorate which disposes.