Politician Quotes

[But even some leading politicians of the Right have had doubts:] Nothing is more insidious than a fashionable consensus... Surely there is something logically suspect about a solution which is correct whatever the problem. - Margaret Thatcher

[But by 2004, after two White House terms, Clinton had grown candid about his own non-service (as well as that of other prominent American politicians):] In the Vietnam era... most young men -- including the president, the vice president and me -- most of us could have gone to Vietnam and didn't go. And John Kerry said, 'Send me.' - Bill Clinton

[A politician is] a person skilled in the art of compromise. Usually an elected official who has compromised to get nominated, compromised to get elected, and compromised repeatedly to stay in office. - Dick Gregory

... The bottom line here is we want to give the power back to the people... Who is fighting us on that? Not the general public. The politicians. - Arnold Schwarzenegger

(The report) is not something that allows politicians to point their finger, but it is backed up by science and subject to review by other scientists... It lays the facts out on the table. - Kevin Cahill