What passes for real debate in Washington often seems more like an echo chamber, with politicians talking at politicians.
Politics will take care of itself. I'm interested in people who are involved in the situations that politicians create. Politics is taken care of by politicians - they're not filmmakers.
Everybody has something to offer the world. Even rapists, murderers, and politicians. Well, maybe not politicians.
I don’t think he’s dumber than a politician. But only because it’s not possible to be dumber than a politician.
And I think musicians can better run this state than politicians. And, hell, beauticians can better run the state than politicians.
A politician's goal is always to manipulate public debate. I think there are some politicians with higher goals. But all of them get corrupted by power.
Democratic politicians have disliked things I've written, Republican politicians... if they all love you, you might as well be driving a Good Humor truck.
No man can be a politician, except he be first a historian or a traveller; for except he can see what must be, or what may be, he is no politician.
My father was a politician, and a very important politician, and one of the leaders of the Iraqi Democratic Party, who believed in progress.
THE POLITICIAN If it wasn't for graft, you'd get a very low type of people in politics. Men without ambition. Jellyfish! CATHERINE Especially since you can't rob the people anyway. THE POLITICIAN Sure...How was that? CATHERINE What you rob, you spend...
Politicians must set their aims for the high ground and according to our various leanings, Democratic, Republican, Independent, we will follow. Politicians must be told if they continue to sink into the mud of obscenity, they will proceed alone.
Buy the town, and rent the politician. Politicians are refillable, like empty cups of coffee.
But then, he thought, most politicians are small and shabby, the sort of people who have been bullied at school. That's why they become politicians.
The difference between a politician and a helmet full of feces, is the politician doesn’t need to wear protective headgear, because he’s got no intelligence to protect.
Is it any wonder that war is senseless? It’s started by politicians. As a class, politicians have no class, and even less sense.
It’s not true I think all politicians are morons. Morons are far too intelligent to be politicians.
I've never met a politician I haven't wanted to walk away from, and I've yet to hear a politician speak and actually believe the words coming out of his mouth.
I understand Twitter has become popular among politicians. This technology allows them to stay in perpetual contact with their constituents. The electorate now has instant information about what politicians have been up to.
I answer that question by saying: 'Why Meg Whitman' which is: I'm not a career politician. I spent 30 years in business. I can tell you that people in California have had it with career politicians: they are done.
As long as we, in the United States, continue to insist that our politicians have to spend all of their time raising millions of dollars for television ads, it will be corrupt. If we leave it up to the politicians to clean up lobbying and finance ref...
You can't have people making decisions about the future of the world who are scientifically illiterate. That's a recipe for disaster. And I don't mean just whether a politician is scientifically literate, but people who vote politicians into office.
