Top 1200 Good Politicians Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

Psychedelic drugs cause paranoia, confusion, and total loss of reality in politicians that have never taken them.

The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow.

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.

The Senate could use more people who had to sweat for a living and fewer of the politicians who made this mess.

If you want to be a good shot-blocker, you're going to be a good shot-blocker. It's simple. You can't teach it. You're either good at it, or you're not good at it. If you're good at it, then be really good at it.

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

You, me...we own this country. Politicians are employees of ours....And when somebody does not do the job, we got to let them go.

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

We as politicians have to understand that the greatest threats to our security are no longer conventional military ones. You cannot nuke a famine.

What does democracy come down to? The persuasive power of slogans invented by wily self-seeking politicians.

It's unbearable to see the people betrayed time and again by politicians who don't keep their promises and by the technocrats at the European Union.

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

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 notoriously economically illiterate. And even when they know what would be the right thing, we don't really expect them to do it.

Those politicians, professors and union bosses who curse big business are fighting for a lower standard of living.

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

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.

Baltimore is a city of possibility, and we've got to challenge the traditional pathways of politics and politicians who lay those paths.

Do what you think is right, because one damn thing is an absolute, certainly: We come and go. Politicians are a dime a dozen.

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

When politicians say, 'Oh, parents should supervise their kids' Internet use,' it drives me crazy.

'Uprising' was requested by so many politicians in America for use in their rallies, and we turned them down on a regular basis.

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

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.

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

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

While politicians may be forgiven for failing to predict the future - who can, alas? - it is amazing that they defiantly ignore the past.

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

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

Politicians tend to live "in character" and many a public figure has come to imitate the journalism that describes him.

Politicians will promise some pretty ridiculous things. They will promise a chicken in every pot. They'll promise that they'll keep Social Security solvent. They'll promise drugs for old people. They'll promise lots of stuff. But it doesn't come near the kind of promises that religion makes. The Mormons promise that if you're good while you're on Earth, you get to rule over your own planet in the afterlife. Now, there's an entitlement that goes a little bit beyond prescription drugs for old people.

I was once a fortunate man but at some point fortune abandoned me. But true good fortune is what you make for yourself. Good fortune: good character, good intentions, and good actions.

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

I think all of us, politicians and churchmen, should do our utmost to change the society so that there would be no need for violence.

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

Maybe we shouldn't be too dependent on politicians trying to make us believe that we are safe only because of their actions.

What politicians want to create is irreversible change because when you leave office someone changes it back again.

Most politicians believe in just one thing - winning elections. They'll say anything to get in office and stay there.

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

Politicians or well connected people will try to get hold of federations and they don't think about sportspersons.

Big pharma has a strangle hold on the politicians. They're stepping over the corpses of the children of America to cash their checks.

We know Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin as politicians, but they felt that science was something everyone should have a knowledge of.

Democracy allows rhetoric, false empathy and emotion to pummel rational thinking - so it's no wonder so many politicians thrive in it.

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

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

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

There are only a handful of politicians who are truly great on Twitter - the rest rely on their account to release press releases.

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

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

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

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

Politicians will always spend every penny of tax raised and whatever else they can get away with.

Our agenda, by necessity, is as complex and encompassing as the problems we face: beware of politicians promising simple solutions.

As long as it is supported by Democratic politicians and by liberal Hollywood players, censorship is a useful tool to stifle dissent.

We should resist the temptation to identify our religious convictions with the platform of a party or the platitudes of favored politicians.

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

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

Fathers need to be made aware of their responsibilities - and that's up to all of us to communicate, as parents, as politicians and as members of a community.

I'm working at trying to be a Christian and that's serious business. It's like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a good Buddhist, a good Shintoist, a good Zoroastrian, a good friend, a good lover, a good mother, a good buddy?it's serious business. It's not something where you think, Oh, I've got it done. I did it all day, hotdiggety. The truth is, all day long you try to do it, try to be it, and then in the evening if you're honest and have a little courage you look at yourself and say, Hmm. I only blew it eighty-six times. Not bad.

Parliaments have stopped laughing at woman suffrage, and politicians have begun to dodge! It is the inevitable premonition of coming victory.