Politicians and Politics Quotes

169 quotations about Politicians and Politics
If a politician isn't doing it to his wife , then he's doing it to his country.
Amy Grant · Politicians and Politics
I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers; what I said was all saloonkeepers are Democrats.
Horace Greeley · Politicians and Politics
Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.
Meg Greenfield · Politicians and Politics
Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.
Edward F. Halifax · Politicians and Politics
In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme.
Roy Hattersley · Politicians and Politics
He serves his party best who serves his country best.
Rutherford B. Hayes · Politicians and Politics
A politician will do anything to keep his job, even become a patriot.
William Randolph Hearst · Politicians and Politics
In politics, as in life, we must above all things wish only for the attainable.
Heinrich Heine · Politicians and Politics
Politics is like a race horse. A good jockey must know how to fall with the least possible damage.
Edouard Herriot · Politicians and Politics
Politics is a choice of enemas. You're gonna get it up the ass, no matter what you do.
George V. Higgins · Politicians and Politics
Politics is the profession of those who have neither trade nor art.
Muhammad Hijazi · Politicians and Politics
Now and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature.
Kin Hubbard · Politicians and Politics
Politics makes strange postmasters.
Kin Hubbard · Politicians and Politics
If there is anything a public servant hates to do it is something for the public.
Kin Hubbard · Politicians and Politics
Never answer a question from a farmer.
Hubert H. Humphrey · Politicians and Politics
Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.
Aldous Huxley · Politicians and Politics
My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised.
Jesse Jackson · Politicians and Politics
When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.
Thomas Jefferson · Politicians and Politics
Politics are such a torment that I would advise every one I love not to mix with them.
Thomas Jefferson · Politicians and Politics
Son, in politics you've got to learn that overnight chicken shit can turn to chicken salad.
Lyndon B. Johnson · Politicians and Politics
Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.
John F. Kennedy · Politicians and Politics
Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build A bridge even where there is no river.
Nikita Khrushchev · Politicians and Politics
Ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
Henry Kissinger · Politicians and Politics
If it's going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.
Henry Kissinger · Politicians and Politics
In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
Walter Savage Landor · Politicians and Politics

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Henry Brooks Adams John Adams Jean Anouilh John Arbuthnot Aristotle Dick Armey Paddy Ashdown Margot Asquith Francis Bacon Walter Bagehot Barres Jean Baudrillard Tony Benn Aneurin Bevan Otto Von Bismarck Henry Bolingbroke Napoleon Bonaparte George Borrow Vera Brittain Denis E. Brogan