Politicians are masters of the art of deception.
Martin L. Gross

Politicians are no different than the rest of the public.
Scott McCallum

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

Politicians are there to try to deal with stuff, but sometimes it's both fortunate and unfortunate that people like us have more... not involvement, but more power in the stuff that we say.
Thierry Henry

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