Quotes with politician

  • The one word that no politician will ever speak, is 'enough.' Enough.
  • I've learned in my years as a journalist that when a politician says 'That's ridiculous' you're probably on the right track.
  • One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of responsibility, and a sense of proportion.
  • 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.
  • The esthete stands in the same relation to beauty as the pornographer stands to love, and the politician stands to life.
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche A politician divides mankind into two classes; tools and enemies.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Socrates I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • B. R. Ambedkar Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.
    B. R. Ambedkar
    Indian jurist, economist and politician (1891 - 1956)
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  • John Major A consensus politician is someone who does something that he doesn't believe is right because it keeps people quiet when he does it.
    John Major
    British politician (1943 - )
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  • Henry Louis Mencken A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Adlai Stevenson II A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Bernard Goldberg A lot of people who voted for Barack Obama expected and were led to expect something new in politics: a new tone of political discourse in Washington. And I think - I think they're disappointed, because Barack Obama is not a new kind of politician. In fact, he's an old Chicago politician.
    Bernard Goldberg
    American author and journalist (1945 - )
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  • William Somerset Maugham A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and ten. It is at this age, when he would be too old to be a clerk or a gardener or a police-court magistrate, that he is ripe to govern a country.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Harry S. Truman A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for 15 years.
    Harry S. Truman
    American president (1884 - 1972)
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  • David Lloyd George A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman.
    David Lloyd George
    Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1916 to 1922 (1863 - 1945)
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  • Adlai Stevenson II A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Edward. E. Cummings A politician is an ass upon which everyone has sat except a man.
    Edward. E. Cummings
    American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright (1894 - 1962)
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  • Boris Yeltsin A politician must have some scruples, a certain decency; he cannot smear himself in the mud for the sake of a high ideal.
    Boris Yeltsin
    Russian politician (1931 - 2007)
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  • Hubert Humphrey A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.
    Hubert Humphrey
    American politician (1911 - 1978)
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  • James Freeman Clarke A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.
    James Freeman Clarke
    American theologian and author (1810 - 1888)
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  • William Randolph Hearst A politician will do anything to keep his job, even become a patriot.
    William Randolph Hearst
     
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  • George F. Will A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.
    George F. Will
    American columnist (1941 - )
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  • Harry S. Truman A statesman is a politician who’s been dead ten or fifteen years.
    Harry S. Truman
    American president (1884 - 1972)
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  • William E. Vaughan A statesman is any politician it's considered safe to name a school after.
    William E. Vaughan
    American columnist and author (1915 - 1977)
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