Quotes and Sayings about Politicians

Artists use lies to tell the truth, while politicians use them to cover the truth up.

You know, you're gonna have to get much better at lying if you want to be president.

Don't forget, she's a politician, and they're not to be trusted.

Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.

When politicians offer you something for nothing, or something that sounds too good to be true, it's always worth taking a careful second look.

People hate politicians. And I can understand why.

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

Leia: "I don't want to be a senator!"
Bail: "It is why you'll probably be one of the best."

The duty of a leader is to serve their people, not for the people to serve them.

Politics is a game and a profession. It doesn't really serve the people the politicians are supposed to serve.

When politics is no longer a mission but a profession, politicians become more self-serving than public servants.

Nations have come under the control of haters and fools.

Do we elect a man because of what he stands for, because of where he stands on the issues, because how he makes the nation feel?

If presidents can't do it to their wives, they do it to their country.

I believe that a politician needs to be with people.

The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.

If you watch the news, you see politicians use human vulnerabilities to get in and earn people's trust.

I would rather be beaten, and be a man, than to be elected and be a little puppy dog.

The president is like a lone tree in an empty field. He leans whichever way the wind is blowing.

A smart man once said to me that speculation is a poor form of politics. Why don't you stick to what you know?

It's been my experience that Senators are only focused on pleasing those who fund their campaigns and they are more than willing to forget the niceties of democracy to get those funds.

War is young men dying and old men talking. You know this. Ignore the politics.

Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.

Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.

Remember, with great power. comes great responsibility!

You should know that all power comes at a price. For every bit of power you gain, so too do you gain more responsibility.

There is no good and evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it.

Have you any idea how much tyrants fear the people they oppress? All of them realize that, one day, amongst their many victims, there is sure to be one who rises against them and strikes back!

These days, I look in the mirror and I have to admit, I'm not the strapping young Muslim socialist that I used to be.

They missed a great opportunity to shut up.

Leno: "What's this thing with Trump and you? I don't get it, it's like me and Letterman - what has he got against you?"
Obama: "This all dates back to when we were growing up together in Kenya. We had constant run-ins on the soccer field."

My chances of being PM are about as good as the chances of finding Elvis on Mars, or me being reincarnated as an olive.

The boss isn't always right, but he's still the boss.

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.

You will find that many of the truths we cling to, depend greatly on our own point of view.

There aren't enough Jedi to protect the Republic. We're keepers of the peace, not soldiers.

There is nothing more lonely or terrifying than feeling unheard.

History is earned. You win the day, and then you win the day after, and you do the same thing every day until you're dead. And you're remembered not for the winning, but because you never lost.

Remember, remember ...the fifth of november

Philippe: "Tell me Driss, why do you think people are interested in art?"
Driss: "I don't know, it's a business?"
Philippe: "No. That's because it's the only thing one leaves behind."

Lies are comforting. Truth is painful.

Chloe: "He had a drug problem, right?"
Lucifer: "Only if you consider ingesting millions of dollars worth of cocaine a problem. I call it a Tuesday."

You see … we were wrong about something else in the prophecy. My first love was never Eve. It was you, Chloe. It always has been.

The bigger the lie, the more people believe in it.

Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets.

I basically think everybody would be better off if people weren't able to exert so much influence on politicians with money.

Here was the chance to provide the leadership the country deserved: positive, modern, rational, appealing to people's hopes rather than their fears.

Forgive me if this sounds pompous, but it's better to die standing up than live on your knees.