Top 1200 Crooked Politicians Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

You never know a line is crooked unless you have a straight one to put next to it.

You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it.

I think that marijuana should be legalized. I think the only reason it isn't legal is because politicians who smoked it when they were young men or young women just don't have the courage when they become politicians to legalize it.

The politicians already in office don't want to change. A few might have it in their hearts to change and to start working for the people, but even some of the most progressive politicians are silent because they know that the candidate with the most money wins.

To crooked eyes truth may wear a wry face

It's a lot of crooked cops out there. They manipulate the system.

If you don't register to vote, politicians don't really care about you: politicians aren't really caring about what you have to say, what you have to do, anything.

I often quote Hitler, who said words to the effect of, "Rulers are fortunate that the people do not think." Politicians know this. Even when the public seems to be upset, the politicians know if they can put on a brave face and ride it out, they generally will.

A willingness by politicians to say what they think the public want to hear, and a willingness by large parts of the public to believe what they are told by populist politicians, has led to a deterioration in our public discourse.

Politicians used to have the confidence to tell us stories that made sense of the chaos of world events. But now there are no big stories, and politicians react randomly to every new crisis - leaving us bewildered and disorientated.

If the first button of one's coat is wrongly buttoned, all the rest will be crooked.

Everybody loves baseball regardless of what they think about politics. That's the cool thing. You see all of the politicians and the military interaction. It's special. It cracks me up that politicians are such big baseball fans. You don't realize that. You just assume they wouldn't have time.

In point of morals, the average woman is, even for business, too crooked.

When you acknowledge God, He will go before you and make the crooked places straight.

Politicians usually get the blame for dragging their feet on environmental issues. And fair enough. Most of them do just that. But the blame isn't theirs alone. For politicians afraid of losing votes, a bristling media waiting to transform good green ideas into monsters is a colossal disincentive.

You are as crooked as a bank robber if you do not pay your debts on time.

Moses and the crooked snake... that turned into a stuck, that was actually a disintegrator pistol.

Fewer people are bent from hard work than are crooked from avoiding it.

Men that make Envy and crooked malice nourishment, Dare bite the best.

Everybody's crooked. The trick is to find out how they're bent.

As long as we, in the United States, continue to insist that our politicians have to spend all of their time raising millions of dollars for television ads, it will be corrupt. If we leave it up to the politicians to clean up lobbying and finance reform, nothing is going to change.

I believe that almost all politicians are honest. For every bribed alderman there are hundreds of politicians, low paid or not paid at all, doing their level best without thanks or glory to make our system work. If this were not true, we would never have gotten past the thirteen colonies.

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 always said that what I do is street knowledge, you let the street know what the politicians of today are doing, and if the politicians are listening, let them know what the streets think.

I don't even think much about politicians. I think about the people in the audience who applaud the politicians. They are your fellow countrymen and they're the ones you live with - that should be who we target for education and enlightenment.

I have really crooked teeth - they give me character!

We can't love our neighbors till we know how crooked their hearts are.

He was so crooked, you could have used his spine for a safety-pin.

Keeping Crooked Hillary Clinton out of the White House!

One of the bad things about bad behavior by politicians (particularly by Donald Trump, because he's president, but by others as well) is that it not only can encourage bad behavior by politicians of all ideological stripes but also can be cited to justify it.

It's a crooked system, but gin straight take the pain away.

God draweth straight lines but we call them crooked.

Crooked cards and straight whiskey, Slow horses and fast women.

You will find that you cannot do without politicians. They are a necessary evil in this day and time. You may not like getting money from one source and spending it for another. But the thing for the school people to do is that if the politicians are going to steal, make them steal for the schools.

For experience teacheth me that straight trees have crooked roots.

I went up a straight crooked lane and, I said 'No thanks, yes if yer please.

Sometimes broken things heal crooked. The pieces didn’t fit anymore.

Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.

Politicians must set their aims for the high ground and according to our various leanings, Democratic, Republican, Independent, we will follow. Politicians must be told if they continue to sink into the mud of obscenity, they will proceed alone.

The conversation ran as fluidly as the tea out of the samovar’s crooked nose.

Men as well as rivers grow crooked by following the path of least resistance.

Evangelical Christian politicians who cheat often raise questions about hypocrisy, especially if they preached piety in public and disregarded it in private. When Jewish politicians fall, they shatter different expectations, particularly that American Jews need to work together to preserve respectability and fireproof against anti-Semitism.

These guys [Republicans] are the most crooked, you know, lying group I've ever seen.

Straight praying is never born of crooked conduct.

It's a racket. Those stock market guys are crooked.

Be honest. Be honest with yourself, be honest with, you know, your fellow politicians. This is a rare quality of politicians.

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

From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.

When you give politicians the power to do what you think is right you're automatically giving politicians the power to do what you think is wrong.

It is the path of least resistance that makes rivers and men crooked.

Unless I'm running and yelling, then you really see how crooked my mouth is!

with his customary crooked smile, “are just too unlikely to dwell upon.

The unique thing about our country is that we don't get behind politicians, politicians get behind us.

What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.

Out of the crooked timber of humanity, nothing completely straight was ever made

You're exactly where you're meant to be, meandering along a crooked path.

Politicians and bureaucrats are the new upper class in Norway. It is an upper class that is growing by an increasing number of top-paid politicians in municipalities and counties. They let the people suffer, but let themselves go free.

Right and proof are two crutches for everything bent and crooked that limps along.

To make a crooked stick straight, we bend it the contrary way.

I love this country, I love these people, though I can't say I love their politicians. People are always nicer than politicians, but here, you can mark that difference up a hundredfold.