If you're looking for a slick politician or a guy with great teleprompter skills, we already have that. He's destroying our economy. I'm a doer, not a talker.
When politicians offer you something for nothing, or something that sounds too good to be true, it's always worth taking a careful second look.
Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.
It is the future, of course, which politicians grapple with, and that is why politics is so disorderly. Only history clears away some of the debris.
We know Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin as politicians, but they felt that science was something everyone should have a knowledge of.
A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.
I am not a politician but I have dedicated the biggest part of my professional life to economic policy both in Greece and Europe.
Mother is the first word that occurs to politicians and columnists and popes when they raise the question, 'Why isn't life turning out the way we want it?'
What is inherently wrong with the word 'politician' if the fellow has devoted his life to holding public office and trying to do something for his people?
In liberal logic, if life is unfair then the answer is to turn more tax money over to politicians, to spend in ways that will increase their chances of getting reelected.
Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
In the course of his presidency, Obama has gone from an almost magical charismatic figure to an ordinary politician. Ordinary. Average.
There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten.
I suppose it's easy to play a hypocritical politician with a smiling face; it's also quite gratifying to play.
Justices are not politicians. They don't run on a political platform, and senators should not ask them to do so.
Sometimes you get politicians who dig their feet into the sand and aren't willing to listen to another voice.
I've seen many politicians paralyzed in the legs as myself, but I've seen more of them who were paralyzed in the head.
The only people you and I are likely to know in common are people in the news - politicians, journalists and celebrities.
If people want a sense of purpose they should get it from their archbishop. They should certainly not get it from their politicians.
Politicians wishing to set a better tone should have the discipline to avoid televised cage matches.
Voting is not a right. It is a method used to determine which politician was most able to brainwash you.
