Politicians around the world are very different, but they all have one thing in common: The first thing they respond to is public opinion.
‐‐ Yair Lapid
Politicians as a class are dangerous, that people who are seeking power over us are not, by definition, our friends.
‐‐ James Bovard
Politicians can't manage. All they can do is talk.
‐‐ Donald Trump
Politicians come in three varieties: straight men, fixers, and maddies.
‐‐ Paul Keating
Politicians differ in their views whether Russia or Islamic State is a bigger menace, and I personally think that Islamic State is the bigger threat.
‐‐ Milos Zeman
Politicians diminish themselves by sounding robotic.
‐‐ Douglas Alexander
Politicians do not enter into wars lightly. It is usually the military themselves who are keener to become involved.
‐‐ Jonathan Powell
Politicians don't like to face unpleasant realities. In truth, nobody does, but as individuals, we have no choice; if we neglect to plan ahead, we are held accountable. Fail to meet your responsibilities at work, and you get fired. Ignore your car's gas gauge, and you get stranded.
‐‐ Nathan Myhrvold
Politicians don't really bring up religion in England.
‐‐ John Oliver
Politicians generally act as if there is no cost to reconnecting with voters by building new New Deals. But the whole exercise of writing law out of New Deal nostalgia is a form of national narcissism. Call it New Deal narcissism.
‐‐ Amity Shlaes
Politicians have always been required to be fake, but now the career havoc wrought by a stray, flying sound bite means they have to sustain their fakeness all the time.
‐‐ Tina Brown
Politicians have limited power. They can't impose morality on themselves. How can they impose it on the country?
‐‐ Cal Thomas
Politicians have such large egos that it usually takes them an inordinately long time to grasp when they've become a pathetic joke.
‐‐ Timothy Noah
Politicians have to be committed to people in equal measures.
‐‐ Angela Merkel
Politicians, ideologists, theologians and philosophers try time and again to provide solutions with nothing remaining: prefab solved problems.
‐‐ Heinrich Boll
Politicians - in both political parties - spend too much money. And they forget to focus on what matters most: fixing the economic mess they created and putting people back to work.
‐‐ Brad Wenstrup
Politicians in Italy seem to spend so much time giving interviews, they don't have time to make the laws.
‐‐ Toni Servillo
Politicians, in many cases - their moral code will be dictated by what can get them reelected, what they can get away with. When you're out of office, I guess you're freed from those checks and balances.
‐‐ Mark Leibovich
Politicians in this country have always been for sale. That is nothing new.
‐‐ Peter Schuyler
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.
‐‐ Tammy Baldwin
Politicians in Washington work in a small, sheltered world where they lurch from crisis to crisis that they create, nurture and use as ideological triggers in their selfish pursuit of re-election.
‐‐ Mike Barnicle
Politicians, it's in their job description to just lie, every day.
‐‐ Rob Delaney
Politicians, like generals, have a tendency to fight the last war.
‐‐ John Bolton
Politicians like to confuse congressional spending with earmarks. There is a difference.
‐‐ Marsha Blackburn
Politicians like to talk about incentives - for businesses to relocate, for example, or to get folks to buy local.
‐‐ Tom Golisano
Politicians like to tell people what they want to hear - and what they want to hear is what won't happen.
‐‐ Paul Samuelson
Politicians love power. I love freedom. That is why I am not a politician.
‐‐ Victor Pinchuk
Politicians love regulating. That's part of the whole power structure.
‐‐ Clint Eastwood
Politicians make decisions in favor of their interest groups or their supporters back in their hometowns.
‐‐ Tadashi Yanai
Politicians make mistakes. People misspeak in public. God knows I have proven both. A lot.
‐‐ R. T. Rybak
Politicians make phony promises all the time that they can't deliver.
‐‐ Larry Hogan
Politicians must be simple and clear about how their ideas will serve the national cause. We can no longer use the complexity of today's problems as an excuse for inaction, rhyme or rhetoric that does not meet the challenges before us.
‐‐ Alan Siegel
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.
‐‐ Maya Angelou
Politicians need a better understanding of global ecology. We need to be freed from our species-specific arrogance. No evidence exists that we are 'chosen', the unique species for which all the others were made. Nor are we the most important one because we are so numerous, powerful and dangerous.
‐‐ Lynn Margulis
Politicians need a film appreciation course.
‐‐ Anurag Kashyap
Politicians need to rethink their reflexive invocations of the Second Amendment and the idea that the gun lobby is too powerful to challenge.
‐‐ David Ignatius
Politicians neither love nor hate. Interest, not sentiment, directs them.
‐‐ Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Politicians never keep all their promises.
‐‐ Michael Moore
Politicians, no matter who they are, shouldn't be able to manipulate the public on a single issue and then call an election at the height of support - that's a little bit of a manipulation of democracy.
‐‐ Jim Bolger
Politicians often call for sanctions as a way of sounding tough when they don't want to take riskier measures.
‐‐ David Ignatius
Politicians often claim secrecy is necessary for good governance or national security.
‐‐ Heather Brooke
Politicians often lie.
‐‐ Paul Weyrich
Politicians often misuse science for political ends and to pursue their own agenda.
‐‐ Leonard Mlodinow
Politicians often reveal most about themselves in unguarded moments.
‐‐ Douglas Alexander
Politicians often say to me, 'Articles in the 'Observer' don't get me votes, but you get me money.'
‐‐ Jared Kushner
Politicians or pundits can distort or cherry-pick climate science any way they want to try and gain temporary influence with the public. But any serious industrialist who's facing 'climate exposure' - as it's now called by money managers - cannot afford to engage in that sort of self-delusion.
‐‐ Clive Thompson
Politicians read the polls that show 85 or 90 percent of the voters profess a belief in God, so they identify themselves with religion, often only to the degree necessary to reach the constituency they are targeting.
‐‐ Jack Germond
Politicians really worry about being politically correct.
‐‐ Nikki Sixx
Politicians said that with our cheap labour, we could be competitive in the world. Nothing could be further from the truth. We were the most uncompetitive country with that cheap labour.
‐‐ Baba Kalyani