Politicians Quotes

What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Wc What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

People seem to think that if a man is a Member of Parliament he may do what he pleases. ... Being in...

Under every stone lurks a politician.

Look at the orators in our republics; as long as they are poor, both state and people can only prais...

You [demagogues] are like the fishers for eels; in still waters they catch nothing, but if they thor...

[Y]ou possess all the attributes of a demagogue; a screeching, horrible voice, a perverse, crossgrai...

In their quest for power and self-importance, to compensate for whatever feelings of social inadequa...

Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a cleve...

The skill of the politician consists in guessing what people can be brought to think advantageous to...

The only kind of appeal that wins any instinctive response in party politics is an appeal to hostile...

The special skill of the politician consists in knowing what passions can be most easily aroused, an...

Last week, I suggested the candidates take up mushrooms. I’ll be damned if Rick Perry didn’t take me...

NEW RULE: 'Kidiots' Leave the children behind. At least until they learn something. A new study has ...

The desire to be a politician should bar you for life from ever becoming one.”"Don't vote. It just e...

Since a politician never believes what he says he is surprised when others believe him.

I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane...

Normally, anything done in the name of 'the kids' strikes me as either slightly sentimental or faint...

I have a deep and profound mistrust of all politicians.

My job is to find the politicians and the presidents and the pompous people who are telling other pe...

The Cuban Missile Crisis. It had to do with Cuba and missiles, I'm pretty sure.

This is the first convention of the space age - where a candidate can promise the moon and mean it.

As a result, amongst working-class Americans, government is now generally seen as being made up of t...

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

The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull. This is not always easy to achieve.

People always kill Caesar. Don't trust anyone.

If ever you get invited into someone's home,' my father said (as he had been invited five or six tim...

Silly,' he said with mock serenity, 'isn't a word you should ever apply to people. They may be total...

a politician is an arse uponwhich everyone has sat except a man

a politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.

A disposition to preserve and an ability to improve taken together would be my standard of a stat...

Your representative owes you not his industry only but his judgement and he betrays instead of se...

In any nation but the USA, it is taken for granted that a man of distinction, ability, wealth or pow...

All political lives unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture end in failure.

Whin a man gets to be my age he ducks political meetin's an' reads th' papers an' weighs th' ivide...

[John Edwards] is the man that Rielle Hunter called 'real and authentic,' which tells us all we need...

Several centuries ago the greatest writer in history described the two most menacing clouds that han...

A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies.

However modest one may be in one's demand for intellectual cleanliness, one cannot help feeling, whe...

He knows nothing he thinks he knows everything - that clearly points to a political career.

As it is not a settled question, you must clear your mind of the fancy withwhich we all begin as chi...

I merely repeat, remember always your duty of enmity towards Man and all his ways. Whatever goes upo...

Politicians were mostly people who'd had too little morals and ethics to stay lawyers.

I shall never ask never refuse nor ever resign an office.

Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence t...

Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualifi...

Modern war, modern international hostility is, I believe, possible only through the stupid illiterac...

It doesn't take ten years of study, you don't need to go to the University, to find out that this is...

It was his first definite encounter with the wary-eyed, platitudinous, evasive Labour leaders, and h...

He came away with an exasperated sense of failure. He denounced parliamentary government root and br...

You English," said Steenhold."You Americans," said Rud."When you aren't as fresh as paint," he said,...

The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.

In the present case it is a little inaccurate to say I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of co...

One cannot enter a State legislature or a prison for felons without becoming, in some measure, a dub...

People don't have the imagination to understand politicians. People are too innocent

the country is almost ruined with pious white people: such pious politicians as we have just before ...

It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals let them make their experiments on journalists a...

Those who have been bred in the school of politics fail now and always to face the facts.

A distinguished clergyman told me that he chose the profession of a clergyman because it afforded th...

I hear of a convention to be held at Baltimore, or elsewhere, for the selection of a candidate for t...

A councillor ought not to sleep the whole night through - a man to whom the populace is entrusted a...

We need to expose the motives of our political leaders, point out their connections to corporate pow...

The main problem in any democracy is that crowd-pleasers are generally brainless swine who can go ou...

The difference between a politician and a statesman is that a politician thinks about the next elect...

A ginooine statesman should be on his guard if he must hev beliefs not to b'lieve 'em too hard.

Ancient politicians talked incessantly about morality and virtue; our politicians talk only about bu...

Divide and rule, the politician cries;Unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.

Macdonald's Law: Never write a letter if you can help it and never destroy one.

A new Member requires the experience of his first session in the House to teach him how to hang up h...

If we are strong our strength will speak for itself. If we are weak words will be no help.

IT (The country) IS HEADED TOWARD OVERSIMPLIFICATION. YOU WANT TO SEE A PRESIDENT OF THE FUTURE? TUR...

If you put your politicians up for sale, as the US does (alone in this among industrialized democrac...

Why should anyone be surprised at what the men "in power" are capable of --didn't every mad-Judas on...

Public justice is the greatest kind of show, my brother. Drama. Suspense. And best of all education ...

he was one of those diplomats who like and know how to work, and, despite his laziness, he occasiona...

...we have seen that the priests regard the state as an enemy to be exploited, it is only natural th...

Ask him about the cemeteries, Dean!"In 1966 upon being told that President Charles DeGaulle had take...

The government of my country snubs honest simplicity but fondles artistic villainy, and I think I mi...

Politics really must be a rotten profession considering what awful moral cowards most politicians be...

On the night of New Year’s Day, I thought of a wonderful New Year’s resolution for the men who run t...

Let us hope that Lysenko's success in Russia will serve for many generations to come as another remi...

Our leaders know we’re turning into a giant ghetto and they are taking every last hubcap they can ge...

The mistake our politicians so often make with these industry leaders is in thinking they are intere...

... It is immensely moving when a mature man - no matter whether old or young in years - is aware of...

The commercialization of molecular biology is the most stunning ethical event in the history of scie...

Reagan won because he ran against Jimmy Carter. Had he run unopposed he would have lost.

Watch a man--say, a politician--being interviewed on television, an you are observing a demonstratio...

... When Princes devote themselves rather to pleasure than to arms, they lose their dominions.

... War is the sole art looked for in one who rules...

... By disarming, you at once give offense, since you show your subjects that you distrust them, eit...

... Physicians tell us of hectic fever, that in its beginning it is easy to cure, but hard to recogn...

Again, a Prince should show himself a patron of merit, and should honour those who excel in every ar...

... On the whole, the best fortress you can have, is in not being hated by your subjects. If they ha...

... If instead of colonies you send troops, the cost is vastly greater, and the whole revenues of th...

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.

You do not know you cannot know the difficulty of the life of a politician. It means every minute ...

Why do you want a political career? Have you ever been in the House of Commons and taken a good look...

Even I realized that money was to politicians what the eucalyptus tree is to koala bears: food, wate...

Power is okay, and stupidity is usually harmless. Power and stupidity together are dangerous".

Here is an old tradition badly in need of return: You have to earn your way into politics. You shoul...