Politicians And Politics Quotes

Under every stone lurks a politician.

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.

Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.

Finality is not the language of politics.

Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.

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

Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.

Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people.

Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.

There are always too many Democratic congressmen, too many Republican congressmen, and never enough U.S. congressmen.

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour.

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

Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other.

When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

A political organization is a transferable commodity. You could not find a better way of killing virtue than by packing it into one of these contraptions which some gang of thieves is sure to find useful.

Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.

The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders...tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger.

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.

Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.

When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.'

Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.

I am a very proud daughter. Obviously to be able to see this transpiring, to watch him achieve so much as a politician - and we're certainly not a family of politicians, and politics is certainly not our family business - it's been amazing.

A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.