Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate.

We artists have the dignity to tell the truth to the people, unlike politicians.

I’m not a politician. I’m a businessman.

In a world shaped and colored more and more by politicians, the nations meet politically, and hardly any other way to settle their differences.

Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves.

Our politicians may fail us, but Status Quo always delivers on the promise.

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve had conversations with politicians who’ve done something morally reprehensible but not indictable, yet still think they should be able to stay in office. The office isn’t a ‘right.’ It’s a kind of loan.

Natural Texas politicians make terrible, terrible presidential candidates. Phil Gramm, I remember the ‘Phil Gramm for President’ campaign. I thought that was the worst thing in the history of the world, but Rick Perry was possibly worse.

There have been tons of politicians who were slow to accept equal rights when it meant changes in the established social order. Many eventually came around, admitted they were wrong, and were forgiven. But the ones who actively choose hate-mongering don’t ever get a pass.

The internet makes it much easier for politicians to communicate directly with voters – think of the interest when David launched Webcammer, or Tony Blair’s rather embarrassing attempt to catch up on YouTube

I think there is a break down of trust generally, between people and politicians. I think that’s come about for a whole variety of reasons

What ‘eminent domain’ laws mean in practice is that politicians have a right to seize your property and turn it over to someone else, in order to gain campaign contributions and win votes

If you have been voting for politicians who promise to give you goodies at someone else’s expense, then you have no right to complain when they take your money and give it to someone else, including themselves

What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race?

Racism is not dead, but it is on life support – kept alive by politicians, race hustlers and people who get a sense of superiority by denouncing others as ‘racists

Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a politician who has lost his job, save only a retired stud-horse.

When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before.

For years politicians have promised the Moon. I’m the first one to be able to deliver it.

In America you can go on the air and kid the politicians, and the politicians can go on the air and kid the people.

Either man is obsolete or war is. War is the ultimate tool of politics. Political leaders look out only for their own side. Politicians are always realistically maneuvering for the next election. They are obsolete as fundamental problem-solvers.

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

Whether it is in the United States or in mainland Europe, written constitutions have one great weakness. That is that they contain the potential to have judges take decisions which should properly be made by democratically elected politicians.