Top 1200 Good Politicians Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Forget about good. Good is a known quantity. Good is what we all agree on. As long as you stick to good, you'll never have real growth.

Get power but don't admit to it. Do it by stealth. There's a whole trend of Rhodes scholars who will be politicians around the world.

Politicians aren't any more wicked than other citizens but the situation in which they are placed warps their judgment.

If you want to understand a nation, look at its dances and listen to its folk songs - don't pay any attention to its politicians.

Most successful American politicians look well-fed on endorsements, campaign contributions and chicken dinners.

When politicians talk about immigration reform, they usually mean the following, amnesty, open borders, lower wages.

Whatsoever is good for God's children they shall have it, for all is theirs to further them to heaven; therefore, if poverty be good, they shall have it; if disgrace be good, they shall have it; if crosses be good, they shall have them; if misery be good, they shall have it; for all is ours, to serve for our greatest good.

At the heart of quantum mechanics is a rule that sometimes governs politicians or CEOs-as long as no one is watching, anything goes.

If you give it good concentration, good energy, good heart and good performance, the song will play you.

No amount of pay ever made a good soldier, a good teacher, a good artist, or a good workman.

To be good, we must do good; and by doing good we take a sure means of being good, as the use and exercise of the muscles increase their power.

The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time.

In Spain we have a saying about the essentials of life: good food, good wine, good sex, good sleep.

I have come to believe that politicians are in the business of 'marketing' their product to the public, by exaggerating threats and over-selling government solutions.

In today's society, looking good and feeling good often trumps doing good and being good. And some people don't know the difference anymore.

The game of political music chairs and finger-pointing by career politicians and agency bureaucrats needs to end.

I would not be good with someone who did drugs. As long as I know something, I can deal with anything. I'm really good. But what I'm not good with is inconsistency. And I'm not good with not knowing.

I have no ambitions at all! I have none... seriously. I want to be a good father. I want to be a good husband. I want to be a good son, a good brother, a good family member. I don't have any ambition to direct a film or write a play. I like acting.

I knew that women politicians face a lot of problems in their lives, so, I dedicated my life for the weaker communities, stayed unmarried.

Politicians and journalists share the same fate in that they often understand tomorrow the things they talk about today.

A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender.

Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.

We've got to clear some of the room out of the prisons so we can put the bad guys in there, like the pedophiles and the politicians.

We can have all the walkouts we want, but if we don't walk to that ballot box and make our voices heard, these politicians aren't going to listen.

I'd like to think that in a generation or two we'll have politicians whose life experience reflects that of the people who are voting for them.

We pick politicians by how they look on TV and Miss America on where she stands on the issues. Isn't that a little backwards?

Reading good books implants good ideas in the mind, develops good aspirations, and leads to the cultivation of good friends.

We all know that looks matter, and modern politicians have always assumed that their battles are decided on both substance and image.

Every day things get better because politicians are addressing the fiscal challenges more aggressively.

Politicians get their power too late, and I think that he has inherited an impossible situation in which he is ill-equipped to deal.

Ensuring a bright future for all our children is the responsibility of the community, the schools, families and like it or not- politicians as well.

When politicians rush to fix things, it's a sure sign that either the intended patient is dead or fully healed.

Hear good things, see good, do good, think good, then you get the Grace of God, as all the evil tendencies will be uprooted.

We shouldn't require our politicians to be movie stars. Then again, we're all influenced by charisma. It's hard not to be. We all collectively fall for it.

Politicians and bureaucrats are no different from the rest of us. They will maximize their incentives just like everybody else.

Politicians will not put forth programs aimed at the problems of poor blacks while their turnout remains so low.

Bonaparte knew but one merit, and rewarded in one and the same way the good soldier, the good astronomer, the good poet, the good player.

We have good corporals and good sergeants and some good lieutenants and captains, and those are far more important than good generals.

Im sick and tired of politicians beating up on the IRS. We have the best and fairest tax-collection system in the world.

Feeling good about yourself is not the same thing as doing good. Good policy is more important than good feelings.

Women politicians tend to lead by being accountable for results. We focus on goals and outcomes. You can't get by on just swagger.

I don't need politicians doing a 24-hour prayer with Oral Roberts to get our country back on track.

There's people out there with nuclear bombs and yet we've got all these politicians trying to make a political platform based on a record. Isn't it ridiculous?

When politicians & economists understand we live in a finite world & act accordingly then a better future has a chance

American journalists and politicians made a perfect spectacle of themselves in discussing the Abu Ghraib prison controversy.

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

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.

We know smoking tobacco is not good for kids, but a lot of other things aren't good. Drinking's not good. Some would say milk's not good.

I have realized why corrupt politicians do nothing to improve the quality of public school education. They are terrified of educated voters.

We're not in the business of putting up barriers; that's the job of politicians. They're the idiots who want to build walls between people.

Over the years, I have seen too many politicians ruin their careers because they could not accept defeat graciously.

When you hire good people, and you provide good jobs and good wages and a career, good things are going to happen.

Being a good human being is very easy: Be a good son, a good husband, a good parent and a good citizen.

I would like to offer a candidate to be added to the venerable list of English collective nouns: a scum of politicians.

More than anything, it's a game of innocence. Politicians may come and go, but they always get booed at the ballpark.

No wonder politicians love government schools. Where do you think the dumb masses come from that can be so easily led and manipulated?

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.

Political journalists, socially inept or no, are not nerds. Most of them can't do math, a fact that campaigns and politicians regularly exploit.

I've not seen in my lifetime any politician who is a heroic figure. The manipulation that all politicians use on one level or another is so transparent.

The idea that growth will remedy our debts is so addictive for politicians, but the citizens end up paying the price.