Politician Quotes

The politician who tries to ape his rival or predecessor is, almost by definition, a second rater, inferior to the real thing.

A politician thinks of the next election; the statesman thinks of the next generation

A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him, he is a statesman.

I have only 2 regrets: that I have not shot Henry Clay or hanged John C. Calhoun.

Music goes way back before language does. And music is like the key to a whole spiritual existence which this society doesn't even talk about. We know it's there. The Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially. We play at the religious services of the new age. Everybody gets high, and that's what it's all about really. Getting high is a lot more real than listening to a politician. You can think that getting high actually did happen - that you danced, and got sweaty, and carried on. It really did happen. I know when it happens. I know it when it happens every time.

There is nothing that politicians like better than handing out benefits to be paid for by someone else.

Obviously, Paul Ryan is not an 'America first' guy.

Politics is the practical exercise of the art of self-government, and somebody must attend to it if we are to have self-government; somebody must study it, and learn the art, and exercise patience and sympathy and skill to bring the multitude of opinions and wishes of self-governing people into such order that some prevailing opinion may be expressed and peaceably accepted. Otherwise, confusion will result either in dictatorship or anarchy. The principal ground of reproach against any American citizen should be that he is not a politician. Everyone ought to be, as Lincoln was.

I was always a politician from the day the civil rights people chose me as their protest singer.

Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he'd lie just to keep his hand in.

Patience. Patience. Patience. The first, and last, and the middle virtue of a politician.

All good Presidents are supple.

I am proudly not a politician, because I am not behold to any special interest.

He is not a … politician who would sacrifice his soul for office; he is not a member of Congress who would promise anything to win a second term. He represents all that is best in American manhood involving integrity of character, a sane mind, and the loftiest of motives.

Nixon is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree and then mount the stump to make a speech for conservation.

My choice early in life was either to be a piano-player in a whorehouse or a politician. And to tell the truth there's hardly any difference.

I'm very different from other politicians.

Senator Schumer is a partisan.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan [is] easily the most original thinker in the Senate.

David Cameron was a good-looking chap in his day!

At the moment I am a little bit politician, yes. I think that could be my next step. It is not because I want power, it is because of what I think I could do for the people.

I'm a politician. What I say is not holy writ.

A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.

Nixon was the most dishonest individual I have ever met in my life. He lied to his wife, his family, his friends, his colleagues in the Congress, lifetime members of his own political party, the American people and the world.

The difference between a politician and a statesman is: a politician thinks of the next election and a statesman thinks of the next generation.