Top 1200 Crooked Politicians Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

I don't really trust politicians, and our job is to call them out. It's old-school journalism.

I understand that this has taken a lot of politicians by surprise. But we believe that this is an important and right step for the steel industry.

Scientific discovery requires sustained funding for decades, and politicians can destroy it in a single budget cycle.

It's very hard for politicians to ignore even just a handful of letters about the same issue.

We don't have politicians with dignity and morals. We never have, not since [Nelson] Mandela and [Mahatma ] Gandhi. It's really rare.

Politicians are easy to attack, but frankly, we are all guilty of not meeting the needs of Africa's young people properly.

We have all, at one time or another, been performers, and many of us still are - politicians, playboys, cardinals and kings.

I'm not really into the political game as far as paying politicians and stuff like that, I'm not into that. You do your job, and I'll do mine.

I am sure that all politicians seek the home connection with the voter. But [Margaret Thatcher] carried it to extremes.

Calculating how much carbon is absorbed by which forests and farms is a tricky task, especially when politicians do it.

Politics isn't my cup of tea. I can't lie all the time, beg for votes or put down other politicians.

Politicians often call for sanctions as a way of sounding tough when they don't want to take riskier measures.

Would most politicians have gone to a meeting with someone advertised as being an agent of the Russian government?

I am not political. It is not my job. But I would be happy if politicians could read my work and draw some conclusions from it.

I think politicians get hamstrung by the nature of politics when the private sector can really do great things.

We shouldn’t have a bunch of politicians, a majority of whom are men, making health care decisions on behalf of women.

The true men of action in our time, those who transform the world, are not the politicians and statesmen, but the scientists

So we have progressed to the point where we can move politicians around faster than light. I'm not sure I see the advantage.

A politicians willingness to listen to good advice rises in inverse proportion to how badly he thinks he is doing.

Politicians make mistakes. People misspeak in public. God knows I have proven both. A lot.

You'd be surprised how many politicians have a working class background but they get it beaten out of them.

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

The truth about the climate crisis is still inconvenient for the large carbon polluters and the politicians who are in their pockets.

The wisdom of hindsight, so useful to historians and indeed to authors of memoirs, is sadly denied to practicing politicians.

The truth is that politicians are basically tied to trying to get reelected, so they can't really make landmark changes.

Politicians as a class are dangerous, that people who are seeking power over us are not, by definition, our friends.

Simple narcissism gives the power of beasts to politicians, professional wrestlers and female movie stars.

The upside of being in the closet is that you develop skills of duplicity, which are great for big-time politicians.

There is no such thing as several Romanias, but only politicians who divide Romania depending on the interests of their parties and their clout.

I was raised in the Washington household of my grandfather Senator Thomas P. Gore of Oklahoma, and have known politicians intimately all my life.

In a climate where people don't understand the numbers, newspapers, campaigners, companies, and politicians can get away with murder

Our politicians screw up all the time, as we see. But with so many things, we're no longer the world leader in that.

So what if I am an actor? MGR, Jayalalithaa, Raj Babbar, Sunil Dutt - all made successful politicians.

It is always useful, you see, to subject the past life of reform politicians to rather inquisitive research.

The civilized world needs to think about a decision when single politicians are not allowed to stay in power.

I long ago tired of politicians who never say anything, adhere to their talking points, and avoid all controversy.

Most people want a normal centrist approach. But politicians in the center have to show them results.

I wonder why people work so hard to become politicians just in order to do something wrong.

Probably a lack of concentration. I always hit them during practice. I just need to concentrate. Even though I should a lousy percentage, I beat a lot of teams from the line. You have to have mechanics. But see, what people don't know about my wrists is my wrists don't go all the way back. My wrists are crooked and don't go all the way back. I've been practicing and working on them. You can't do everything good.

I personally agree with the rights of homosexuals. But the Protestant churches are very powerful in Korea. It isn't easy for politicians.

Politicians are like God. No one believes in them, they haven't done anything for ages, and they give jobs to their immediate family

Most politicians come into politics because they want to make a difference; we just have different ideas how to do it.

When politics is no longer a mission but a profession, politicians become more self-serving than public servants.

We don't want our politicians bending to the whims of whichever corporation has the money to pay them off.

Bishops and judges are some of the best politicians in the world. They know how to manipulate the political process.

Politicians wishing to set a better tone should have the discipline to avoid televised cage matches.

Whatever the police or politicians may tell us, this is a violent and threatening place. Living here is dangerous.

Women need to become conscious of the impact that their attitudes and actions can have on future generations of voters and politicians.

Politicians like to talk about incentives - for businesses to relocate, for example, or to get folks to buy local.

Republicans, Democrats, libertarians, and independents all agree on only one thing - our national politicians are bought.

Politicians have such large egos that it usually takes them an inordinately long time to grasp when they've become a pathetic joke.

Politicians are addicted to spending and revenue extraction. As with an addict, there's little pause for moral or legal contemplation.

The politicians of New York...see nothing wrong in the rule, that to the victor belong the spoils of the enemy

It was a new kind of class war - the people as citizens versus the politicians and their clients in the public sector.

Most members of Congress are politicians. They're bores. They're damn boring. They have no imagination, and they don't know how to imagine the future.

Some politicians were probably too lax about the rise of an extremist, fundamentalist, radical ideology.

God has no role to play in politics except to make sure politicians go where they belong. To hell.

A little nonsense now and then is not a bad thing - where would we politicians be if we were not allowed to talk it sometimes.

The secret lives of politicians are always shady. People need to accept the fact that their leaders aren't perfect. No one is.

[Sylvester] Stallone and I were in a meeting for Rocky Balboa. We were laughing about something, and he looks at my mouth and says to the casting director, "Wow, your lip even hooks down like mine does." Then he looked at the casting director and nodded, and I guess that was the nod of saying, "Hire this kid." So yeah, I have a really crooked mouth. They don't work, but I can feel everything.