If we meet an honest and intelligent politician, a dozen, a hundred, we say they aren't like politicians at all, and our category of politicians stays unchanged; we know what politicians are like.

In the United States, there one feels free... Except from the Americans - but every pearl has its oyster.

One of the most obvious facts about grown-ups, to a child, is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.

To Americans, English manners are far more frightening than none at all.

If we meet an honest and intelligent politician, a dozen, a hundred, we say they aren't like politicians at all, and our category of politicians stays unchanged; we know what politicians are like.

It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.

I decided that Europeans and Americans are like men and women: they understand each other worse, and it matters less, than either of them suppose.

I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry.

The blind date that has stood you up: your life.

A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.

The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.

He thinks that Schiller and St Paul were just two Partisan Review editors.

Calculating how much carbon is absorbed by which forests and farms is a tricky task, especially when politicians do it.

If politicians continue to promote separatism in Australia, they should not continue to hold their seats in this parliament. They are not truly representing all Australians, and I call on the people to throw them out.

Both politicians and journalists face situations which strain their honesty and humanity. My opinion is that politicians on the average stand up somewhat better than journalists.

There are actually very few US politicians who have integrity and vision.

It seems to me that politicians ought to use the same words as other people.

It is normal for politicians in all countries to profess themselves the pupils of history, anxious to draw the right lessons from her teaching.

I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians.

Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision.

And I think there is too much bloviating around from politicians.

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

A politician's goal is always to manipulate public debate. I think there are some politicians with higher goals. But all of them get corrupted by power.

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

The future is not Big Government. Self-serving politicians. Powerful bureaucrats. This has been tried, tested throughout history. The result has always been disaster. President Obama, your agenda is not new. It's not change, and it's not hope.

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

It's wherever business rules, business is going to get the politicians they want because they control the money and money controls the power.

Politicians are masters of the art of deception.

I don't think politicians should be allowed into power who are not familiar with their bodies, because that's where our bottom line is. And I know that they would make totally different decisions if they felt responsible simply for their own bodies.

The reason there are so few female politicians is that it is too much trouble to put makeup on two faces.

Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.

When politicians use fear, they are playing into the enemy's hand.

The first requisite of a sound monetary system is that it put the least possible power over the quantity or quality of money in the hands of the politicians.

There's this unspoken club where you say to each other: Oh God, if they only knew how ordinary I was, they wouldn't be interested. That includes movie stars and politicians.

Once your name becomes well known, politicians come courting.

I would say keep supporting space flight, keep telling the public and the politicians why it's important to advance science and explore the galaxy. I encourage the Japanese to keep doing what they're doing.

Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.

There are, believe it or not, good politicians.

Texas was defined by its larger-than-life characters, particularly politicians.

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

I've seen many politicians paralyzed in the legs as myself, but I've seen more of them who were paralyzed in the head.

What politicians want to create is irreversible change because when you leave office someone changes it back again.

I did not deal well with the politicians. I tend to tell people that when they are full of crap, that they are full of crap.

It does no harm just once in a while to acknowledge that the whole country isn't in flames, that there are people in the country besides politicians, entertainers, and criminals.

I think the show does better with newsmakers and politicians than it does with actors.

I was studying American politicians who were searching - allegedly - for American communists because it would put them on the front pages of the papers in their home towns.

The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars.

He's suffering from Politicians' Logic. Something must be done, this is something, therefore we must do it.

The civilized world needs to think about a decision when single politicians are not allowed to stay in power.