Quotes of: Career-politicians Keyword

If more politicians in this country were thinking about the next generation instead of the next election, it might be better for the United States and the world.

Claude Pepper

The politicians in this world... have at their command weapons of mass destruction far more complex than their own thinking processes.

Charley Reese

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.

Carl Sandburg

Three things at least they [good politicians] must require; the first is back-bone; the second is back-bone; and the third is back-bone.

Charles Sumner

I do not admire politicians; but when they are excellent in their way, one cannot help allowing them their due.

Horace Walpole

There's a tendency in many politicians to become inward-looking, more protectionist, more nationalistic and more defensive, in the bad sense of the word.

Jose Manuel Barroso

Any politician who's ever been re-elected knows that friends come and go; enemies accumulate.

Jim Cooper

I am not a politician, and I will never be, and I say that with absolute conviction.

David Petraeus

I think anybody who wants to be president has to be a politician, but I would like to find somebody who's coming from a loving place instead of a political place.

Ellen DeGeneres

The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.

Ben Okri

Present law has a process to ascertain whether or not a patient is in a persistent vegetative state, and it should not matter what politicians think.

Bobby Scott

When I was growing up in the United States and Sweden, I never thought about becoming a politician.

George Papandreou

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

George Will

A motto of many politicians, public servants and money bags: Ask not 'What can I do for you?' but 'What can I do you for?

H.M. Forester

A consensus politician is someone who does something that he doesn't believe is right because it keeps people quiet when he does it.

John Major

Of course, politicians always say they're just describing their opponents' positions, even if they are in fact offering absurd caricatures, if not outright lies.

James Surowiecki

Washington politicians should not be treated any differently than any other American. That's what people are fed up with.

Jason T. Smith

Need' now means wanting someone else's money. 'Greed' means wanting to keep your own. 'Compassion' is when a politician arranges the transfer.

Joseph Sobran

Politicians wanted to mine the Grand Canyon for zinc and copper, and Theodore Roosevelt said, 'No.'

Douglas Brinkley

I'm Dan Gelber. As a federal prosecutor, I helped put away corporate criminals, corrupt politicians and violent gangs.

Dan Gelber

Democracy allows rhetoric, false empathy and emotion to pummel rational thinking - so it's no wonder so many politicians thrive in it.

David Harsanyi