Politicians Quotes

I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.
Winston Churchill

Politics, War, Writing

Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.
Will Rogers

Everything, Joke, Seriously

Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.
John F. Kennedy

Become, Mothers, President

Elections should be held on April 16th- the day after we pay our income taxes. That is one of the few things that might discourage politicians from being big spenders.
Thomas Sowell

After, Big, Few

I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians.
John F. Kennedy

Politics, Women, Talk

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
Aristotle

Life, Happiness, Power

When the federal government spends more each year than it collects in tax revenues, it has three choices: It can raise taxes, print money, or borrow money. While these actions may benefit politicians, all three options are bad for average Americans.
Ron Paul

Money, Government, Bad

I would just like to say something, ladies and gentlemen. Something that I think is very important. It is that, you, we - we own this country. We - we own it. It is not you owning it, and not politicians owning it. Politicians are employees of ours.
Clint Eastwood

Important, Country, Ladies

Unlike some politicians, I can admit to a mistake.
Nelson Mandela

Mistake, Admit, Unlike

Deficits mean future tax increases, pure and simple. Deficit spending should be viewed as a tax on future generations, and politicians who create deficits should be exposed as tax hikers.
Ron Paul

Future, Simple, Mean

When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before.
H. L. Mencken

Two, Before, Old

Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate.
Orson Welles

Election, Popularity, Duck

Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government.
Thomas Sowell

Life, Government, Fair

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.
Thomas Sowell

Life, Money, Getting

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

Bad, Give, Reputation

Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote.
William E. Simon

Good, Bad, Vote

Now workers should have the right to join unions. But unions should not be forced upon workers. And unions should not have the power to take money our of their members' paychecks to buy the support of politicians that are favored by the union bosses.
Mitt Romney

Money, Power, Support

Sometimes I wonder whether Washington's liberal politicians truly understand the greatness that is America.
Mitt Romney

Understand, America, Sometimes

Money and corruption are ruining the land, crooked politicians betray the working man, pocketing the profits and treating us like sheep, and we're tired of hearing promises that we know they'll never keep.
Ray Davies

Money, Tired, Corruption

Well, I don't think we should go to the moon. I think we maybe should send some politicians up there.
Ron Paul

Moon, Maybe, Send

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers.
Nikita Khrushchev

Same, Promise, Build

Everything is possible, from angels to demons to economists and politicians.
Paulo Coelho

Everything, Possible, Angels

If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves.
Howard Zinn

Power, Society, Control

Musicians can run this state better than politicians. We won't get a lot done in the mornings, but we'll work late and be honest.
Kinky Friedman

Work, Done, Honest

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

Bad, Sunday, Together

What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
Angela Davis

Country, Needs, Unemployed

All politicians should have 3 hats - one to throw into the ring, one to talk through, and one to pull rabbits out of if elected.
Carl Sandburg

Through, Talk, Throw

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

Thinking, Country, Election

The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.
Benjamin Disraeli

Democracy, Weary, Statesmen

The only people who say worse things about politicians that reporters do are other politicians.
Andy Rooney

Worse, Reporters

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