Politicians and Politics Quotes

169 quotations about Politicians and Politics
In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.
Cecil Parkinson · Politicians and Politics
Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it.
Laurence J. Peter · Politicians and Politics
To speak on without saying anything has always been the greatest gift of orators.
Platen · Politicians and Politics
Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child.
Dan Quayle · Politicians and Politics
People start parades -- politicians just get out in front and act like they're leading.
Dana Gillman Rinehart · Politicians and Politics
In politics a straight line is the shortest distance to disaster.
John P. Roche · Politicians and Politics
There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.
Will Rogers · Politicians and Politics
I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
Will Rogers · Politicians and Politics
I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.
Will Rogers · Politicians and Politics
No party is as bad as its leaders.
Will Rogers · Politicians and Politics
Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.
Will Rogers · Politicians and Politics
Politics is not worrying this country one-tenth as much as where to find a parking space.
Will Rogers · Politicians and Politics
The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected.
Will Rogers · Politicians and Politics
A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted in the air.
Franklin D. Roosevelt · Politicians and Politics
No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.
Franklin D. Roosevelt · Politicians and Politics
In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.
Jean Rostand · Politicians and Politics
In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.
Jean Rostand · Politicians and Politics
The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends.
Seneca · Politicians and Politics
Get thee glass eyes, and like a scurvy politician, seem to see the things thou dost not.
William Shakespeare · Politicians and Politics
A politician is one that would circumvent God.
William Shakespeare · Politicians and Politics
There have been many great men that have flattered the people who never loved them.
William Shakespeare · Politicians and Politics
He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.
George Bernard Shaw · Politicians and Politics
I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
Socrates · Politicians and Politics
A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.
Adlai E. Stevenson · Politicians and Politics
We mean by politics the people's business -- the most important business there is.
Adlai E. Stevenson · Politicians and Politics

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