Top 1200 Politicians Quotes & Sayings - Page 17
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Last updated on November 10, 2024.
The saying, "Those that don't learn from history are condemned to repeat it" doesn't just apply to politicians and world leaders, it applies to all of us on a daily basis.
It is the future, of course, which politicians grapple with, and that is why politics is so disorderly. Only history clears away some of the debris.
I have become increasingly unnerved by the depth of corruption that exists at many different levels. I'm less upset with politicians than [with] the media.
I think Americans are looking for like a human element in their politicians. And they all understand, look, they've got kids who do bad things, too.
If enough citizens believe their national security’s in jeopardy then politicians who propose wars will receive the support they need.
As the Internet breaks down the last justifications for a professional class of politicians, it also builds up the tools for replacing them.
Politicians today are not highly regarded... there seem to be people young and old and in the middle saying that they have never heard such wretched debates.
In 2010, there were 57 lawyers, zero manufacturers, and way too many career politicians in the United States Senate.
No one since the Garden of Eden - which the serpent forsook in order to run for higher office - has imputed to politicians great purity of motive.
I'll spend whatever it takes to get my message out and to be competitive with these career politicians. I'm not going to take a penny of special interest money.
Many Americans who are not fastened at the temples to a Christian prayer book are offended by politicians who justify their decisions by piously quoting the Old Testament.
Congress wants to keep "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance. Washington politicians are united in their faith. Most worship the same reelection.
Politicians make good company for a while just as children do - their self-enjoyment is contagious. But they soon exhaust their favourite subjects - themselves.
Pressure and protest is fine, but using fear and threats to force politicians to sing to a certain tune will be the death of our democracy.
I've always tried to avoid politics because most politicians that I know are quite dirty in terms of human dignity, ethics and morals.
I am baffled by many Western politicians who continually blame low-cost imported goods for their own economic challenges.
The media, the corporations, the politicians…have all done such a good job of scaring the American public, it’s come to the point where they don’t need to give any reason at all.
Contrary to what the politicians and religious leaders would like us to believe, the world won't be made safer by creating barriers between people.
American voting districts are, across a lot of the country, deeply messed up by having been gerrymandered by right-wing politicians.
I must choose my words carefully in order to avoid any negative interpretation. Among politicians, this is a tactic known as lying.
Politicians never live up to all the hopes that we invest in them but I think he [Barack Obama] has made America a different country.
Politicians are terrified of losing touch with folks back home but content to be clueless about government's failure to fix real problems.
Politicians in Washington and Madison aren't hearing, aren't listening to their constituents and prioritizing getting people back to work and growing our economy.
Elections in L.A. are so different. Here you've got politicians with phony smiles making false promises to voters with fake boobs and bad toupees.
We take all elections seriously. We are 24/7 politicians working for the interests of the country and its people. We are not like others who relax and enjoy power.
Career politicians do not have the courage to prioritize spending and say no to demanding special interest groups who do not reflect the best interests of the country.
Politicians are terrified of losing touch with folks back home but content to be clueless about governments failure to fix real problems.
Even the most left-wing politicians worship wealth creation - as the political-action-committee collection plate is passed.
I cannot suggest political ways out, that is the task of politicians, so it is simply that those who accuse me of this do not know how to read.
Great and glorious events which dazzle the beholder are represented by politicians as the outcome of grand designs whereas they are usually products of temperaments and passions.
If pro athletes and entertainers want to freelance as political pundits, then they should not be surprised when they're called out for insulting politicians.
I'm not one of those politicians, to my probably discredit, who thinks very far ahead. It has to feel right to me and not be about a careful plot and plan.
The first requisite of a sound monetary system is that it put the least possible power over the quantity or quality of money in the hands of the politicians.
We have never met with politicians. I don't know the first thing about how to get heard. My suspicion is that it's to donate a lot of money.
The last thing we need is efforts by some politicians and the NRA to arm educators and allow more guns in our schools.
Democrats creating the expectation that judges should act as politicians in robes is a dangerous precedent to set, threatening the very independence of the judiciary.
Our entire political system is financed by wealthy private interests buying politicians and making sure the rules are written in their favor.
Not literature alone, but society itself is wormed and rotten when language ceases to be respected not merely by advertisers and politicians, but by persons of learning and authority.
Of course, politicians always say they're just describing their opponents' positions, even if they are in fact offering absurd caricatures, if not outright lies.
I have a suspicion that the politicians' revival of the old behaviourist ideas and techniques will be helped and reinforced by a powerful ally - the machines we have built. The computers.
I know that all over America there's probably politicians sending out pictures of themselves signing that mandatory helmet bill, but it's bullshit. I say that as a parent.
Why do politicians and bureaucrats get salaries and perks from the pockets of the poor and do nothing for them? So I took action against the corrupt and the lazy.
Protectionist politicians cannot stand the notion of a fossil-fuel-rich America maintaining record levels of production through exports.
From the streets of Los Angeles to the public schools of the Bronx, there is no state of the Union where Latinos are not becoming local leaders and responsible politicians.
There is no limit to the hunger politicians have for the money you've worked so hard for. ... You can tell them to take a hike, but then the guns come out.
Media outlets that are exploiting Ebola because they want a sensational story and politicians using it to their own ends ought to be ashamed.
The fact that the federal government is the nation's greatest environmental villain has not stopped activists from reflexively turning to politicians to “protect the environment.”
I am not content to entrust our free-speech rights to the good graces and whims of Congress and hope that politicians don't abuse their power.
Politicians study hard and work diligently their entire lives to be able to stand in front of a national audience and lie through their teeth.
It's one of the reasons [professional politicians] why people's confidence in the electoral system has declined so much. They have all become shadowy political creatures
And for well over a hundred years our politicians, statesmen, and people remembered that this was a republic, not a democracy, and knew what they meant when they made that distinction.
Neither liberal nor conservative politicians can resist the temptation to stand as mighty sequoias of rectitude amid the lowly underbrush of fundraising.
I can cope with politicians now I've had about 40,000 cockroaches tipped over my head. Westminster's going to be no problem.
Politics is a thing that I follow because it determines what is going on in my country, but I vote and deal with politicians with a great degree of jaundiced eye.
If there is a 'Leave' vote in England and across the U.K. as a whole, then we see the reins of power being seized by politicians who are on the right of the Conservative party.
If people don't know who you are, they're not going to listen to your message. And not everybody pays attention to politicians by watching Fox News and CNN.
One of the oddities of this election is the man that [Donald] Trump chose as his vice-president, Mike Pence, is one of the Kochs' favourite politicians.
If you construct political narratives around the psychodramas of politicians, even when they don't invite it, you open the way for those who can play this game more effectively.
Politicians, ideologists, theologians and philosophers try time and again to provide solutions with nothing remaining: prefab solved problems.
So many red lines have been crossed that people seem to think it is acceptable for politicians and the media to actually incite hatred and violence.
