Politicians as a class are dangerous, that people who are seeking power over us are not, by definition, our friends.
James Bovard

Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good.
George Will

Politicians have limited power. They can't impose morality on themselves. How can they impose it on the country?
Cal Thomas

Politicians have to be committed to people in equal measures.
Angela Merkel

Politicians in this country have always been for sale. That is nothing new.
Peter Schuyler

Politicians like to tell people what they want to hear - and what they want to hear is what won't happen.
Paul Samuelson

Politicians neither love nor hate. Interest, not sentiment, directs them.
Lord Chesterfield

Politicians often lie.
Paul Weyrich

Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.
Arthur C. Clarke

Politicians talk themselves red, white, and blue in the face.
Clare Boothe Luce

Politicians trim and tack in their quest for power, but they do so in order to get the wind of votes in their sails.
Ian Gilmour

Politicians who wear little tennis socks with the balls at the back should not be taken seriously.
Mo Rocca

Politicians, no matter who they are, shouldn't be able to manipulate the public on a single issue and then call an election at the height of support - that's a little bit of a manipulation of democracy.
Jim Bolger

Politicians... talk in generalities and lies, and I think they've caused all our grief. They're so awful, they're really funny. I hate thinking this because my dad loved politics.
Paul Lynde

Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
Charles de Gaulle

Popular culture tells you that schools and parents don't know what's going on, the police are dogs, politicians are all liars and scum, and any crime that's not committed by the Mafia is done by the CIA.
Stanley Crouch

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

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

Right now we're in the middle of a cultural war between the Muslims and the Western world. The politicians get in the way, but if you put two people together in a room, they can talk it out and work it out, just like Anna and the King.
Sandy Duncan

Right-wing media and politicians are looking for any opportunity to be critical of the reporters who are here. Some reporters make judgments, but that is not my style. I present both sides and report what I see with my own eyes.
Peter Arnett