Politician Quotes

“If there's a child on the south side of Chicago who can't read, that matters to me, even if it's not my child. If there's a senior citizen somewhere who can't pay for their prescription, who has to choose between medicine and the rent, that makes my life poorer - even if it's not my grandparent. If there's an Arab-American or Mexican-American family being rounded up by John Ashcroft without benefit of an attorney or due process, I know that that threatens my civil liberties. And I don't have to be a woman to be concerned that the Supreme Court is trying to take away a woman's right, because I know that my rights are next. It is that fundamental belief - I am my brother’s keeper, I am my sister’s keeper - that makes this country work.”
― Barack Obama

“It is important to bear in mind that political campaigns are designed by the same people who sell toothpaste and cars.”
― Noam Chomsky

“The grass always seems greener on the other side of the fence. Many politicians promise green, green grass by blending niceties with delusion and by using alluring confidence tricks. They voice attractive tales and tell things, people like to hear. But the post-factual grassland often appears to be parched and barren. ("The grass was greener over there")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“He was born a politician.
No, Ursula thought, he was born a baby, like everyone else. And this is what he has chosen to become.”
― Kate Atkinson, Life After Life

“Voting is not a right. It is a method used to determine which politician was most able to brainwash you.”
― Dennis E. Adonis

“The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy; it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups.”
― Henry Hazlitt

“The advantages of a hereditary Monarchy are self-evident. Without some such method of prescriptive, immediate and automatic succession, an interregnum intervenes, rival claimants arise, continuity is interrupted and the magic lost. Even when Parliament had secured control of taxation and therefore of government; even when the menace of dynastic conflicts had receded in to the coloured past; even when kingship had ceased to be transcendental and had become one of many alternative institutional forms; the principle of hereditary Monarchy continued to furnish the State with certain specific and inimitable advantages.

Apart from the imponderable, but deeply important, sentiments and affections which congregate around an ancient and legitimate Royal Family, a hereditary Monarch acquires sovereignty by processes which are wholly different from those by which a dictator seizes, or a President is granted, the headship of the State. The King personifies both the past history and the present identity of the Nation as a whole. Consecrated as he is to the service of his peoples, he possesses a religious sanction and is regarded as someone set apart from ordinary mortals. In an epoch of change, he remains the symbol of continuity; in a phase of disintegration, the element of cohesion; in times of mutability, the emblem of permanence. Governments come and go, politicians rise and fall: the Crown is always there. A legitimate Monarch moreover has no need to justify his existence, since he is there by natural right. He is not impelled as usurpers and dictators are impelled, either to mesmerise his people by a succession of dramatic triumphs, or to secure their acquiescence by internal terrorism or by the invention of external dangers. The appeal of hereditary Monarchy is to stability rather than to change, to continuity rather than to experiment, to custom rather than to novelty, to safety rather than to adventure.

The Monarch, above all, is neutral. Whatever may be his personal prejudices or affections, he is bound to remain detached from all political parties and to preserve in his own person the equilibrium of the realm. An elected President – whether, as under some constitutions, he be no more than a representative functionary, or whether, as under other constitutions, he be the chief executive – can never inspire the same sense of absolute neutrality. However impartial he may strive to become, he must always remain the prisoner of his own partisan past; he is accompanied by friends and supporters whom he may seek to reward, or faced by former antagonists who will regard him with distrust. He cannot, to an equal extent, serve as the fly-wheel of the State.”
― Harold Nicholson

“What adjective can be used for a nation who is consistently fooled, recurrently deceived by the crafty politicians? Goofy? Very light! Fool? Not enough! Brainless? Yes, that is the very adjective!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“A representative owes not just his industry but his judgement”
― Edmund Burke

“In these times, a great leader must be extremely brave. Their leadership must be steered only by their conscience, not a bribe.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“Why is it that we all say we hate our hypocritical politicians being controlled by special interests groups, and every election...we vote them in again.”
― Colleen Hitchcock

“All modern U.S. presidents are perforce politicians, prisoners of their past pronouncements, their party, their constituency, and their colleagues.”
― Tony Judt, Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century

“Politics is clueless; I can claim -"I am a politician" only because I am not.”
― Munia Khan

“A politician who has no compassion is nothing but an evil apparition; he is just a ghost, not a real man!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“A politician plus zero is not equal to zero; it is something minus!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“A microphone and a podium gives you neither talent nor permission.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If I was acting like a politician's kid, I would not have been here for a small brawl. Maybe I would have been here for a rape case.”
― Ashwini Rudra, Delhi via Lucknow: Once, love travelled this route

“Quarterbacks shouldn’t leave the pocket, because that’s where the money is. Every politician knows this.”
― Jarod Kintz, There are Two Typos of People in This World: Those Who Can Edit and Those Who Can't

“Orang-orang dengan senyum cabul dan mata awas oportunis yang siap lari dan sembunyi setiap kali salah kalkulasi dan salah strategi.”
― Asmayani Kusrini, Siri'

“Politics is not about politics.”
― Anuj Jasani

“Since the buffoons called politicians have appeared on the stage of humanity, interest in clowns has decreased drastically!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Pronoun abuse is when a politician demands to be identified as a patriot.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Whatever Might Be The Cost of Eradicating Bribe, I Will Pay For It; Dr.P.S.Jagadeesh Kumar, Democratic Makkal Katchi (DEMK)”
― P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“He who lies and steals ...and forms a government.”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, Yet Another New Land

“There is a thin line between a vision and a hallucination in politics.”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, Yet Another New Land

“The new era politicians? Fake profiles.”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, Yet Another New Land

“Being a corruption researcher is like being a politician, as half the people like you and half do not.”
― Steven Magee

“There are two types of politician... the provocateur and the manipulator. One prods and pokes at random to see where the sore points are, whereas the other knows exactly what he's looking for.”
― Fredrik Backman, The Winners

“When politicians have problems sleeping, they count voters.”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, Yet Another New Land

“Nations are born in the hearts of poets;
they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.”
― Allama Iqbal, Stray Reflections: A note-book of Allama Iqbal