If you are a businessman or a politician in Iran, you can get a visa as quickly as you ask for it.

Confucius say... politician is one who shakes your hand before elections and your confidence after.

I have to say that the judges and our judiciary system makes better decisions than the politicians.

The real question is "Why should we make an exception for billionaire politicians?". We should not.

I will not resolve a land dispute if civil groups or politicians are involved in the land disputes.

Every individual should be expressing themselves, whether a politician or a minister or a policeman.

I don't think I'm made of the right stuff to be a politician. I think I'm made to be a loose cannon.

The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up.

I come here not as a polished politician but as a woman who has had her fair share of life's knocks.

Over the years the political establishment has frowned if a mainstream politician mentions marriage.

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

Politicians have immense power to do harm to the economy. But they have very little power to do good.

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

Ideas are the only things that count, and politicians are, for the most part, pretty much irrelevant.

A politician is the devil's quilted anvil; He fashions all sins on him, and the blows are never heard.

Politicians are just a bunch of local bandits, sent by their local voters to raid the public treasury.

I am an educationist. I'm an economist. I am a politician. I am also now a good storyteller, you know?

I will deal with the politicians in a political way and with the nonpoliticians in a nonpolitical way.

I never fear famous politicians, never fear the big parties, I only fear the people do not understand.

The politicians in Washington just had no idea about the complexity of the situation in South Vietnam.

I've never been disappointed by politicians. I've never invested that much in them in the first place.

Percentages! Those are for economists, polls, and politicians. Percentages can't define your identity.

At home, you always have to be a politician; when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman.

President Reagan is a rhetorical roundheels, as befits a politician seeking empathy with his audience.

In the very end, civilizations perish because they listen to their politicians and not to their poets.

Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.

For fear of the newspapers politicians are dull, and at last they are too dull even for the newspapers.

I don't really want to hang out with politicians. I'd rather go straight to hell, and not collect $200.

I don't want to appease everyone. It seems very difficult to be steadfast on truth and be a politician.

There is no visible sign that the current politicians in the US are willing to see the need for change.

It is not through any combinations of politicians that the outcome of an electoral campaign is decided.

You know, larger-than-life politicians have larger-than-life strengths and larger-than-life weaknesses.

I won't eat anything that has intelligent life, but I'd gladly eat a network executive or a politician.

You said in your book that at the end of the day, every politician is human. What about during the day?

I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.

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

As politicians we have to react to the fact that many people do not feel that they can relate to the EU.

I've dealt with politicians my entire life. You never make a bad deal with a politician. They're so easy.

Up through and including Lincoln, American politicians nursed a fantasy of repatriating blacks to Africa.

The more that I know of politics, the more it makes me realize that being a politician is largely useless.

Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

I feel sorry for many politicians we expect them to be completely consistent and moralised when we're not.

Now is the time to act or get stuck with a bland, boring, career politician who will lose to Barack Obama.

A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for 15 years.

The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.

There will be more coming afterwards if we don't re-empower politicians to get organized and work together.

Politicians are making deals for their benefit. Now we are going to make the deals for the American people.

I'm used to politicians being angry with me, you know, because I don't work for them. I work for my viewers.

When a politician uses the word 'folks,' we should brace ourselves for the deceit, or worse, that is coming.

[On going into politics:] My husband went to bed with Debbie Reynolds and he woke up with Eleanor Roosevelt.

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