Quotes on Politician

In America you can go on the air and kid the politicians, and the politicians can go on the air and kid the people.

No matter how their leaders may have tried to skimp on money, no one, not even the politicians, who talked themselves red, white, and blue in the face, skimped on effort.

When a politician is in opposition he is an expert on the means to some end; and when he is in office he is an expert on the obstacles to it.

Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.

A politician... one that would circumvent God.

The politician attempts to remedy the evil by increasing the very thing that caused the evil in the first place: legal plunder.

In the hands of politicians grand designs achieve nothing but new forms of the old misery.

It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

I wanted to be a politician and a movie star. But I was born a writer. If you're born that, you can't change it. You're going to do it whether you want to or not.~

The only way to get change is not through the courts or - heaven forbid - the politicians, but through a change of human consciousness and through a change of heart. Only through the arts - music, poetry, dance, painting, writing - "can we really reach each other.

There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten.

My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.

I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.

When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.

Success in politics demands that you must take your people into confidence about your views and state them very clearly, very politely, very calmly, but nevertheless, state them openly.

Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.

The rain washed away my pitcher's mound... I'm a pitcher without a mound... I'm a lost soul... I'm like a politician out of office." "Or a sailor without an ocean..." "Or a boy without a girl.

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.

Like any good shaman, professional baseball player, or politician, my mother always answered questions with questions.