Quotes of Politician - somelinesforyou

“ I once said cynically of a politician, 'He'll doublecross that bridge when he comes to it.'. ”

- Oscar Levant

“ At home, you always have to be a politician; when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman. ”

- Harold Macmillan

“ A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar. ”

- H. L. Mencken

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

- Charles de Gaulle

“ A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman of the next generation. ”

- James Clarke

“ Hell hath no fury like a crooked politician denied his cut. ”

- Benjamin J. Montalbano

“ Politician: From the Greek "poly" Hence "polytetien," a person of two or more faces. ”

- Martin Pitt

“ A politician divides mankind into two classes; tools and enemies. ”

- Unknown

“ A politician will do anything to keep his job, even become a patriot. ”

- William Randolph Hearst

“ A politician would do well to remember that he has to live with his conscience longer than he does with his constituents. ”

- Melvin R. Laird

“ One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one. ”

- Henry Miller

“ People start parades — politicians just get out in front and act like they're leading. ”

- Dana Gillman Rinehart

“ People with high ideals don't necessarily make good politicians. If clean politics is so important, we should leave the job to scientists and the clergy. ”

- Michio Watanabe

“ Politicians have the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterward to explain why it didn't happen. ”

- Winston Churchill

“ Politicians say they're beefing up our economy. Most don't know beef from pork. ”

- Hariold Lowman

“ The most successful politician is he who says what everybody is thinking most often and in the loudest voice. ”

- Theodore Roosevelt

“ The news of any politician's death should be listed under "Public Improvements.". ”

- Frank Dane

“ The politician is like an acrobat: He keeps his balance by saying the opposite of what he does. ”

- Arthur Schopenhauer

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

- David Lloyd George

“ A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground. ”

- H. L. Mencken

“ Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion. ”

- Edmund Burke

“ The house of Lords is a model on how to care for the elderly. ”

- Franklin Field

“ A statesman is a politician who places himself at the service of the nation. A politician is a statesman who places the nation at his service. ”

- Georges Pomidou

“ The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull. ”

- Dean Acheson

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

- Edmund Burke

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

- Charles de Gaulle

“ The reason there are so few female politicians is that it is too much trouble to put makeup on two faces. ”

- Maureen Murphy

“ Now I know what a statesman is; he's a dead politician. We need more statesmen. ”

- Bob Edwards

“ Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians. ”

- Chester Bowles

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

- Simon Cameron
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