Politicians Quotes - Page 2

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

I'm not a member of any organized party I'm a Democrat.

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

Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on office a rottenness begins in his conduct.

Whin a man gets to be my age he ducks political meetin's an' reads th' papers an' weighs th' ividence an' th' argymints - pro-argymints an' con-argymints an' makes up his mind ca'mly an' votes th' Dimmycratic Ticket.

Finley Peter Dunne

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

George Bernard Shaw

A councillor ought not to sleep the whole night through - a man to whom the populace is entrusted and who has many responsibilities.

Homer

One of the luxuries of a politican's life is that you see yourself as others see you.

Joe Clark

If I believe in something I will fight for it with all I have. But I do not demand all or nothing. I would rather get something than nothing. Professional liberals want the fiery debate. They glory in defeat. The hardest job for a politician today is to have the courage to be a moderate. It's easy to take an extreme position.

Hubert Humphrey

A Liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.

Robert Frost

You do not know you cannot know the difficulty of the life of a politician. It means every minute of the day or night every ounce of your energy. There is no rest no relaxation. Enjoyment? A politician does not know the meaning of the word.

Nikita Khrushchev

A new Member requires the experience of his first session in the House to teach him how to hang up his overcoat and take his seat in a manner befitting a gentlemen.

John A. Macdonald

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

An honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought.

Simon Cameron

The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence.

Talleyrand

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

Charles de Gaulle

Power is a drug on which the politicians are hooked. They buy it from the voters using the voters' own money.

Richard J. Needham

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

David Brinkley

90% of the politicians give the other 10% a bad reputation.

Henry Kissinger

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

David Lloyd George

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

Enoch Powell

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

Nikita Khrushchev

Probably the most distinctive characteristic of the successful politician is selective cowardice.

Richard Harris

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

Mort Sahl

Successful democratic politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate appease bribe seduce bamboozle or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies.

Walter Lippman

The British House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.

Tony Bennett

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

Dean Acheson

I have said what I meant and meant what I said. I have not done as well as I should like to have done but I have done my best frankly and forth-rightly no man can do more and you are entitled to no less.

Adlai Stevenson

A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling 'Stop!'

William F. Buckley

Greater love hath no man than this that he lay down his friends for his political life.

Jeremy Thorpe

I love this job. I love it to death. I love every waking minute of it.

Joey Smallwood

Now that all the members of the press are so delighted I lost I'd like to make a statement. As I leave you I want you to know -just think how much you'll be missing. You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore because gentlemen this is my last press conference.

Richard Nixon

I gave 'em a sword. And they stuck it in and they twisted it with relish. And I guess if I had been in their position I'd have done the same.

Richard Nixon

A distinguished clergyman told me that he chose the profession of a clergyman because it afforded the most leisure for literary pursuits. I would recommend to him the profession of a governor.

Henry David Thoreau

The only kind of appeal that wins any instinctive response in party politics is an appeal to hostile feeling; the men who perceive the need of cooperation are powerless. Until education has been directed for a generation into new channels, and the Press has abandoned incitements to hatred, only harmful policies have any chance of being adopted in practice by our present political methods. But there is no obvious means of altering education and the Press until our political system is altered. From this dilemma there is no issue by means of ordinary action, at any rate for a long time to come. The best that can be hoped, it seems to me, is that we should, as many of us as possible, become political skeptics, rigidly abstaining from belief in the various attractive party programmes that are put before us from time to time.

Bertrand Russell

If you put your politicians up for sale, as the US does (alone in this among industrialized democracies), then someone will buy them--and it won’t be you; you can’t afford them.

Juan Cole

The skill of the politician consists in guessing what people can be brought to think advantageous to themselves; the skill of the experts consists in calculating what really is advantageous, provided people can be brought to think so. (The proviso is essential, because measures which arouse serious resentment are seldom advantageous, whatever merits they may have otherwise.) The power of the politician, in a democracy, depends upon his adopting the opinions which seem right to the average man. It is useless to urge that politicians ought to be high-minded enough to advocate what enlightened opinion considers good, because if they do they are swept aside for others.

Bertrand Russell

Under every stone lurks a politician.

Aristophanes

In their quest for power and self-importance, to compensate for whatever feelings of social inadequacy or sexual insecurity, they (Politicians)are prepared to perpetrate something which is hard to distinguish from mass murder if they think they can get away with it...

Auberon Waugh

A politician has an axe to grindWith which he aims to chop off half your mind.

Chris I. Naylor

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

Halldór Laxness

Politicians are played by what they say and they don't do

Válgame

On the Night of the Halloween, I have never seen any evil apparition or fearsome ghost but politicians on TV! They are the real goblins and specters!

Mehmet Murat ildan

The wolf reintroduction has gone so well that, somewhat ironically, the wolves are now threatened by their own success. Indeed, virtually all the conditions for strong public support that were evident in the early years of the program remain intact. The scientific and economic studies cited above support the original predictions of benefits, and agency officials remain committed to the policy. Yet some political actors remain hostile to the program. As NPS management assistant Sacklin said, "No amount of good science will stop a politician.

William R. Lowry

A politician, a man engaged in party contests, must be an opportunist. Let us give up saying that word as if it contained a slur. If you want to win in party action, I take it for granted that you want to lure the majority to your side. I never heard of any man in his senses who was fishing for a minority.

Woodrow Wilson

I wish politicians the world over would stop claiming credit for economic growth that happens despite them, not because of them. Grow up...

Ziad K. Abdelnour

politicians often had the knack of seeming to know everyone intimately. Either they had remarkable memories, or their secretaries reminded them efficiently.

Ken Follett

How is it that we can punish women who are paid by politicians yet allow freedom and forgiveness to the politicians who pay them? The irony of the situation is that if we allow Sptizer’s deep pockets to buy his way back into our homes and hearts, then it’s not young women he hired who are whores, it’s the people of New York.

Valerie Baber

...we can best understand the furies of war and politics by remembering that almost the whole of each party believes absolutely in its picture of the opposition, that it takes as fact, not what is, but what it supposes to be the fact.

Walter Lippmann

He was half a politician, and like most of his kind he was an insecure man.

Ross Macdonald

Politicians were famous for double-speak and were consummate liars. That’s why George W. Bush had to be their favorite president. It’s easier to commit a fraud when the actor believes his lie to the point of a conviction

Kenneth Eade

The flute of the Pied Piper of Hamelin has never left us and it is essential that we train our ear to detect its false notes because in our case the flute is being played by the rats.

Dimitris Mita

Never give a good politician time to pray.

Stephen King

However...," Satan said.Bick sighed. "However, I didn't count on the growing interference of lawyers, regulators, bureaucrats and politicians into my business. I swear it seems that every year they stick their noses into more and more."Lucifer chuckled. "Sorry about that-I outdid myself there.

R.S. Belcher

... we shoved out many hopes and fears into their hands, believing those hands were strong because they had firm handshakes. They failed us, always. There was no way they could not fail us - they were human, and so were we.

Isaac Marion

Before the nineteen-seventies, most Republicans in Washington accepted the institutions of the welfare state, and most Democrats agreed with the logic of the Cold War. Despite the passions over various issues, government functioned pretty well. Legislators routinely crossed party lines when they voted, and when they drank; filibusters in the Senate were reserved for the biggest bills; think tanks produced independent research, not partisan talking points. The "D." or "R." after a politician's name did not tell you what he thought about everything, or everything you thought about him.

George Packer

Politics is so difficult, it's generally only people who aren't quite up to the task who feel convinced they are.

Alain de Botton

Politics is good; when it works properly, disagreements get solved without people beating each other up. But when a regime knows its days are numbered, there's always the chance it may use its position to change the rules and make the debate it is losing irrelevant.

Vernor Vinge

The special skill of the politician consists in knowing what passions can be most easily aroused, and how to prevent them, when aroused, from being harmful to himself and his associates...Moreover, since politicians are divided into rival groups, they aim at similarly dividing the nation, unless they have the good fortune to unite it in war against some other nation.

Bertrand Russell

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

Henry David Thoreau

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