Quotes on Politician

Even were the workers able to have their own representatives, for which our good Socialist politicians are clamoring, what chances are there for their honesty and good faith?

Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.

Experts are just trained dogs.

The politician's promises of yesterday are the taxes of today.

I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.

A politician should have three hats. One for throwing into the ring, one for talking through, and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected.

No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.

If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.

My greatest political asset, which professional politicians fear, is my mouth, out of which come all kinds of things one shouldn't always discuss for reasons of political expediency.

A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.

Everyone is in favor of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people's idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone else says anything back, that is an outrage.

Optimists and pessimists die the exact same death, but they live very different lives!

Why do people always expect authors to answer questions? I am an author because I want to ask questions. If I had answers, I'd be a politician.

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.

A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.

When a politician uses the word 'folks,' we should brace ourselves for the deceit, or worse, that is coming.

The short memories of the American voters is what keeps our politicians in office.

I'm a singer, not a politician, and I think you don't want the two to get confused. It's not OK to be on CNN talking about people starving and then tell the interviewer that your new album is coming out in six months.

It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

No one ever died from smoking marijuana, but millions of people have died by believing politicians.

When things get tough, this is what you should do: Make good art. I'm serious. Husband runs off with a politician -- make good art. Leg crushed and then eaten by a mutated boa constrictor -- make good art. IRS on your trail -- make good art. Cat exploded -- make good art. Someone on the Internet thinks what you're doing is stupid or evil or it's all been done before -- make good art.