Famous Quotes - Tags - Politics And Politicians

  • A certain secret jealousy of the British Minister is always lurking in the breast of every... More
  • A man who has at length found something to do will not need to get a new suit to do it in; for... More
  • A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still... More
  • A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth. More
  • a politician is an arse upon
    which everyone has sat except a man. More
  • A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a... More
  • A politician’s words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks... More
  • A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with... More
  • A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer—that is, a coward to both sides of the question,... More
  • And all the popular statesmen say
    That purity built up the State
    And after kept it from... More
  • As compared with the college politician, the real article seems like an amateur. More
  • At home you always have to be a politician. When you’re abroad you almost feel yourself a... More
  • At one time or another, almost every politician needs an honest man so badly that, like a... More
  • At Passadumkeag we found ... earnest politicians, to wit,—white ones, I mean,—on the alert to... More
  • Away with the cant of “Measures, not men!”Mthe idle supposition that it is the harness and... More
  • Cry cry what shall I cry?
    The first thing to do is to form the committees:
    The... More
  • Don’t fall in love with politicians, they’re all a disappointment. They can’t help it, they... More
  • Dutton Peabody: No, no, no, you don’t. No. I’m a newspaperman not a politician. Politicians... More
  • Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne’er loved them. More
  • For eighteen hundred years, though perchance I have no right to say it, the New Testament has... More
  • Get thee glass eyes,
    And, like a scurvy politician, seem
    To see the things thou dost not. More
  • Government and legislation! these I thought were respectable professions. We have heard of... More
  • He could not see a belt without hitting below it. More
  • He speaks to Me as if I was a public meeting. More
  • He thinks like a Tory, and talks like a Radical, and that’s so important nowadays. More
  • He was a tough, burly thick-headed gentleman, with a loud voice, a pompous manner, a tolerable... More
  • Heads of state are notoriously ill prepared for their mature careers; think of Adolf Hitler... More
  • He’s the biggest two-timing, double-crossing candidate that ever ran for office. He’s even... More
  • I am not liked as a President by the politicians in office, in the press, or in Congress. But I... More
  • I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. More
  • I do not deny that there may be other well-founded causes for the hatred which various classes... More
  • Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power. More
  • If we were left solely to the wordy wit of legislators in Congress for our guidance, uncorrected... More
  • It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral. More
  • It is my settled opinion, after some years as a political correspondent, that no one is attracted... More
  • It is not necessary that every time he rises he should give his famous imitation of a... More
  • It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say. More
  • It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him. More
  • Jack: A politician, huh?
    Editor: Oh, county treasurer or something like that.
    Jack:... More
  • Jefferson Smith: If you thought as much as being honest as you do of being smart ...
    Diz:... More
  • Little other than a redtape Talking-machine, and unhappy Bag of Parliamentary Eloquence. More
  • Look not to legislatures and churches for your guidance, nor to any soulless incorporated bodies,... More
  • My life’s work has been accomplished. I did all that I could. More
  • No man with a genius for legislation has appeared in America. They are rare in the history of the... More
  • No wonder that, when a political career is so precarious, men of worth and capacity hesitate to... More
  • Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a politician who has lost his job, save only a retired... More
  • Nothing is so foolish, they say, as for a man to stand for office and woo the crowd to win its... More
  • Now, we deny not, but that politicians may sometimes abuse religion, and make it serve for the... More
  • One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling... More
  • One good Man may take another’s Word, if they so agree, but a whole Nation ought never to trust... More
  • One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people... More
  • Patience, to hear frivolous, impertinent, and unreasonable applications: with address enough to... More
  • People start parades—politicians just get out in front and act like they’re leading. More
  • People with high ideals don’t necessarily make good politicians. If clean politics is so... More
  • Political image is like mixing cement. When it’s wet, you can move it around and shape it, but... More
  • Politicians are the same all over: they promise to build a bridge even where there is no river. More
  • Politicians—power itself—are abject because they merely embody the profound contempt people... More
  • Politics makes strange bed-fellows. More
  • Prominent and influential editors, accustomed to deal with politicians, men of an infinitely... More
  • Resolved to ruin or to rule the state. More
  • Resolv’d to ruin or to rule the state. More
  • Scholars who become politicians are usually assigned the comic role of having to be the good... More
  • Shall one who hates justice govern? More
  • Some, it seems to me, elect their rulers for their crookedness. But I think that a straight stick... More
  • Statesmen and legislators, standing so completely within the institution, never distinctly and... More
  • Successful democratic politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only... More
  • The apparent rulers of the English nation are like the imposing personages of a splendid... More
  • The competent leader of men cares little for the niceties of other peoples’ characters: he... More
  • The fact which the politician faces is merely that there is less honor among thieves than was... More
  • The history of American politics is littered with bodies of people who took so pure a position... More
  • The ordinary politician has a very low estimate of human nature. In his daily life he comes into... More
  • The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision. More
  • The poor President, what with preserving his popularity and doing his duty, is completely... More
  • The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage. More
  • The small creatures chirp thinly through the dust, through the night.
    O mother
    What shall... More
  • The sort of morality which the priests inculcate is a very subtle policy, far finer than the... More
  • The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a... More
  • The verdict on Prince Metternich will soon be out: An excellent diplomat and a bad politician. More
  • The worst thing I can say about democracy is that it has tolerated the Right Honourable Gentleman... More
  • There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne’er loved them. More
  • They who have been bred in the school of politics fail now and always to face the facts. Their... More
  • Trade and commerce, if they were not made of India-rubber, would never manage to bounce over the... More
  • trying to live in the terrible western world

    here where to love at all’s to be a... More
  • We all know that Prime Ministers are wedded to the truth, but like other wedded couples they... More
  • We are a nation of politicians, concerned about the outmost defenses only of freedom. It is our... More
  • We assume that politicians are without honor. We read their statements trying to crack the code.... More
  • We mustn’t be stiff and stand-off, you know. We must be thoroughly democratic, and patronize... More
  • Webster never goes behind government, and so cannot speak with authority about it. His words are... More
  • What have Massachusetts and the North sent a few sane representatives to Congress for, of late... More
  • Whether elected or appointed
    He considers himself the Lord’s annointed,
    And indeed the... More
  • Willie couldn’t steal a vote from Abe Lincoln in the cradle of the Confederacy. More
  • With all the surgical skill and the vital rays lavished on him he should talk like a—like a... More
  • You know, what I very well know, that I bought you. And I know, what perhaps you think I don’t... More
  • You slam a politician, you make out he’s the devil, with horns and hoofs. But his wife loves... More
  • Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgement; and he betrays instead of... More

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