Quotes about Politicians

"You've got to vote for someone. It's a shame, but it's got to be done."
-Whoopi Goldberg

"Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river."
-Nikita Khrushchev

"It is true that the politician, in his professional character, does not always, or even very often, conform to the most approved pattern of private conduct."
-Frederick Scott Oliver

"I care. I care a lot. I think of Cosmopolitan all day, and I run scared. So it's a combination of fright, caring and anxiety."
-Helen Gurley Brown

"A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump off the Godfather for not going to church on Sunday."
-Russell Baker

"The only thing worse than a silly politician analyzing art is a silly artist analyzing politics."
-Jonathan Alter

"Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word."
-Charles de Gaulle

"It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil,... that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure."
-George Mcgovern

"After all, it [the Internet] was designed to withstand nuclear war, not just the puny huffs and puffs of politicians and religious fanatics."
-Denise Caruso

"If we meet an honest and intelligent politician, a dozen, a hundred, we say they aren't like politicians at all, and our category of politicians stays unchanged; we know what politicians are like."
-Randall Jarrell

"Under every stone lurks a politician."
-Aristophanes

"Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians."
-Chester Bowles

"The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time."
-Franklin Pierce Adams

"The auditorium, named after a dead Queens politician is windowless in honor of the secrecy in which he lived and, probably, the bank vaults he frequented."
-Jimmy Breslin

"Dressing is a matter of taste, and I've met very few Republicans with good taste.""
-Willie Brown

"An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought."
-Simon Cameron

"Politicians never accuse you of 'greed' for wanting other people's money - only for wanting to keep your own money."
-Joseph Sobran

"At home, you always have to be a politician; when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman."
-Harold Macmillan

"Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation."
-Henry Kissinger

"Now I know what a statesman is; he's a dead politician. We need more statesmen."
-Bob Edwards

"If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates."
-Jay Leno

"The reason there are so few female politicians is that it is too much trouble to put makeup on two faces."
-Maureen Murphy

"Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor."
-Claudia Lady Bird Johnson

"Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do."
-Wendell Berry

"A politician weakly and amiably in the right, is no match for a politician tenaciously and pugnaciously in the wrong."
-Edwin P. Whipple

"Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks, and the politicians and other compromised officials improve their bank balances."
-Steve Allen

"It does no harm just once in a while to acknowledge that the whole country isn't in flames, that there are people in the country besides politicians, entertainers, and criminals."
-Charles Kuralt

"I blame the politicians, ... The Air Force has a manual on how to fight a war. You hit them as hard as you can right at first."
-Lyndon B. Johnson