Politicians Quotes

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...

The artist and the politician stand at opposite poles. The artist enhances life by his prolonged con...

If you got good elective officials in your day, it was a happy accident, better than you deserved.

He's an honest politician--he stays bought.

He was harassed, but still he spoke with authority. He was, in fact, characteristic of the best type...

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

There must be a lot of duplication in our country’s laws," said Dukhi. "Every time there are electio...

I made up three lists: Candidate's Accomplishments (real and imaginary), Accusations Against Opponen...

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

A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia get...

We've got to stand with our North Korean allies.

Without patience, without absence of anger, no one can be called a politician.

Don't think I know you," Harold said, grinning, as they shook. He had a firm grip. Larry's hand was ...

Never give a good politician time to pray.

I don't like politicians, and I don't like politics. I definitely don't want to be associated with a...

History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions.

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

I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors ...

If politicians stopped meddling with things they don't understand, there would be a more drastic red...

LSD is a psychedelic drug which occasionally causes psychotic behavior in people who have NOT taken ...

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

Politics is good; when it works properly, disagreements get solved without people beating each other...

...we can best understand the furies of war and politics by remembering that almost the whole of eac...

Half the time he seems autistic, the rest of the time he's like a lizard jacked full of lithium and ...

You'll have a good, secure life when being alive means more to you than security, love more than mon...

It is of the essence of any party to gain its orientation not from truths but from illusions which u...

More men have been elected between Sundown and Sunup than ever were elected between Sunup and Sundow...

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

A politician, a man engaged in party contests, must be an opportunist. Let us give up saying that wo...

I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to ...

No politician should ever let himself be photographed in a bathing suit.

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

Self-government is in inverse ratio to numbers. The larger the constituency, the less the value of a...

Waiting in the reception area, she had flicked through a news magazine that had been lying on the ta...

Mr Mandela, who had given his whole life for justice and had never once thought of himself. How unli...

Sociopaths are attracted to politics because the see it as a sphere in which you can be ruthless and...

We chose younger and younger politicians to lead us because they looked good on television and were ...

... 'You can't read everything. I've never got beyond the beginning of Proust. I love him, but I can...

United Nations needs reform to connect with world community beyond the boundary of high-level bureau...

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...