Politicians and Politics Quotes

169 quotations about Politicians and Politics
What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
Edward Langley · Politicians and Politics
Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.
Abraham Lincoln · Politicians and Politics
Politicians say they're beefing up our economy. Most don't know beef from pork.
Hariold Lowman · Politicians and Politics
At home you always have to be a politician. When you're abroad you almost feel yourself a statesman.
Harold Macmillan · Politicians and Politics
The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision.
John Major · Politicians and Politics
Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong.
Don Marquis · Politicians and Politics
Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
Groucho Marx · Politicians and Politics
It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public.
W. Somerset Maugham · Politicians and Politics
It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
Eugene J. Mccarthy · Politicians and Politics
Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
Ian Mcewan · Politicians and Politics
A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.
H. L. Mencken · Politicians and Politics
Although he's regularly asked to do so, God does not take sides in American politics.
George J. Mitchell · Politicians and Politics
Hell hath no fury like a crooked politician denied his cut.
Benjamin J. Montalbano · Politicians and Politics
In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.
John Morley · Politicians and Politics
When you've got them by their wallets, their hearts and minds will follow.
Fern Naito · Politicians and Politics
Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathan · Politicians and Politics
Nobody is a friend of ours. Let's face it.
Richard M. Nixon · Politicians and Politics
I played by the rules of politics as I found them.
Richard M. Nixon · Politicians and Politics
I am not a crook.
Richard M. Nixon · Politicians and Politics
The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up.
Richard M. Nixon · Politicians and Politics
Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything.
Peggy Noonan · Politicians and Politics
The right man, in the right place, at the right time, can steal millions.
Gregory Nunn · Politicians and Politics
You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis · Politicians and Politics
Political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.
George Orwell · Politicians and Politics
Politics is the science of urgencies.
Theodore Parker · Politicians and Politics

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