Quotes on Politician

Prosperity is something the businessmen created for politicians to take credit for

Democracy is not freedom. Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to eat for lunch. Freedom comes from the recognition of certain rights which may not be taken, not even by a 99% vote. Those rights are spelled out in the Bill of Rights and in our California Constitution. Voters and politicians alike would do well to take a look at the rights we each hold, which must never be chipped away by the whim of the majority.

Only armchair politicians are immune from committing mistakes. Errors are inherent in political action.

I firmly believe you never should spend your time being the former anything.

But if you do not have the Tao yourself, what business have you spending your time in vain efforts to bring corrupt politicians into the right path?

I believe that access to a university education should be based on the ability to learn, not what people can afford. I think there is no more nauseating a sight than politicians pulling up the ladder of opportunity behind them.

The Olympic Games belong to the athletes and not to the politicians.

I think anybody who wants to be president has to be a politician, but I would like to find somebody who's coming from a loving place instead of a political place.

Sheer egoism... Writers share this characteristic with scientists, artists, politicians, lawyers, soldiers, successful businessmen - in short, with the whole top crust of humanity.

America’s drug problem is not going to be solved in courtrooms or legislative hearing rooms by judges and politicians. It will be solved in living rooms and dining rooms and across kitchen tables – by parents and families.

I'm not a politician. And I don't want to be.

If you cannot convince a Fascist, acquaint his head with the pavement.

When politicians presume to do God's work, they do not become divine but diabolical.

The only way for a reporter to look at a politician is down.

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

Democracy cannot consist solely of elections that are nearly always fictitious and managed by rich landowners and professional politicians.

The West as a whole in the early 1990s become obsessed with a 'peace dividend' that would be spent over and over again on any number of soft-hearted and sometimes soft-headed causes. Politicians forget that the only real peace dividend is peace.

Liberal: a power worshipper without power.

Life and people are complex. A writer as an artist doesn't have the personality of a politician. We don't see the world that simply.

When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.

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