Quotes of: Career-politicians Keyword

I don't think I'm made of the right stuff to be a politician. I think I'm made to be a loose cannon.

Penn Jillette

Political systems are run by self-selecting politicians. We don't draft people; it's not jury duty.

P. J. O'Rourke

Politicians are wonderful people as long as they stay away from things they don't understand, such as working for a living.

P. J. O'Rourke

I did not deal well with the politicians. I tend to tell people that when they are full of crap, that they are full of crap.

Robert Crandall

There's a certain clubbiness to the idea that you're an ex-president. You're no longer a politician. You're a statesman.

Robert Dallek

Most successful American politicians look well-fed on endorsements, campaign contributions and chicken dinners.

Simon Hoggart

They lives rough, and risk swinging, but they eat and drink like fighting-cocks. What means this? Politicians!

Sam Houssami

No British politician has ever been more despised by the British people than Margaret Thatcher.

Steven Patrick Morrissey

The only politician ever to have entered parliament with honourable intentions, was Guy Fawkes.

Terry Deary

For any politician who didn't enter office a wealthy man, nothing says 'I take bribes' like a Rolex watch.

Timothy Noah

The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.

Theodore Roosevelt

You ask politicians a question, and they have an answer. It's almost like the more articulate the answer, the more something feels wrong because that question takes thought.

Ken Leung

The politicians are all useless individuals. Nobody is reducing the problems in the U.S. or Europe, just putting on a Band-Aid and postponing the problems endlessly.

Marc Faber

For people have four shadows; four politicians have twenty shadows or hundred or more! One person with many fake faces!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Politics is clueless; I can claim -"I am a politician" only because I am not.

Munia Khan

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

Maureen Murphy

Perhaps when a nation goes through a period of upheaval, those who should become politicians, do.

Minae Mizumura

It is unfortunate that people believe that in order to democratise something you have to get politicians out of the system.

Roosevelt Skerrit

...You haven't I suppose ever mixed with politicians at close quarters. They're awful...their stupidity is inhuman.

Robert Skidelsky

And for well over a hundred years our politicians, statesmen, and people remembered that this was a republic, not a democracy, and knew what they meant when they made that distinction.

Robert W. Welch, Jr.

Contrary to what the politicians and religious leaders would like us to believe, the world won't be made safer by creating barriers between people.

Michael Palin