Politicians Quotes

Last week, I suggested the candidates take up mushrooms. I’ll be damned if Rick Perry didn’t take me up on that.

~ Bill Maher

He was a consummate politician-- which is to say he was given to expedient speech and lacked even a vestigial spine.

~ Nick Taylor

Money is a servant to politicians and the country.But, if the politicians and the country become the servant of the money, the politicians has failed.

~ Oliver Kemper

Nothing so removes a man from his inner, mysterious, real life, nothing makes him so deaf and dumb as the picture of these petty passions and petty crimes which calls itself the world of politics.

~ Vladimir Odoyevsky

We are living in a world where moral climates have no atmosphere.

~ Roderick Vincent

Only one thing to it: a strong stomach. The guts to gladhand a man you're going to stab in the back; pledge allegiance to principles you stomp on every day; righteously denounce some despot in the press and sell him arms under the table. The talent to whip up the voters' worst passions while you seem to call on their highest instincts, and the sense to stay wrapped in the flag. That's politics: I'll take the simple life.

~ Pierre-Augustin Caron De Beaumarchais

Politics bores you? Bronsen said.Julien smiled. It does. Apologies, sir, and it is not that I haven't tried to be fascinated. But careful and meticulous research has suggested the hypothesis that all politicians are liars, fools, and tricksters, and I have as yet come across no evidence to the contrary. They can do great damage, and rarely any good. It is the job of the sensible man to try and protect civilization from their depradations.

~ Iain Pears

No country can police corruption in other countries when it itself is not free from corruption. You cannot clean a dirty wall with dirty hands.

~ Suzy Kassem

People need to remember that a man who is deceptive deceives by hiding that he is deceptive. He is not going to openly validate that he is deceiving you because his aim is to deceive you.

~ Suzy Kassem

Would you not say that peace is the greatest desire of true soldiers? Do we not have the most to lose from war? And businesses, most of them except military and oil ones, most of them have a vested interest in peace and prosperity. You cannot sell a house to a war refugee living in a tent, can you? Really hard tto sell an iPhone to a shattered victim. Businesses and corporatoons run this country. So yuou have to approach them with logic. Emotional appeals to the hippies of this world will not change minds. Stick to logic.- Shane Gibson, candidate for Governor, THE PLATOS ASCENSION BRIEF.

~ Earl Devere

I would rather contend with an honest asshole than a duplicitous diplomat.

~ A.e. Samaan

News Flash!All politicians arms are going to be lengthened so that they will be able to pat themselves on the back for doing a great job.

~ Anthony T. Hincks

Cruel people are not only people who kill innocent people with guns. Individuals who steal from government coffers to enrich themselves at the expense of the poor are grossly cruel.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

I swear if Washington moved any slower, we could be at war and it would all be over before they could even lift their sluggish, naked, dead asses off of their comfortable heated-seat toilets. -Fitzhugh to Captain Jeeter

~ Ray Palla

That’s the difference between good military commanders and good politicians, John Geary. You’ve shown me that a good military commander spends the lives of their people reluctantly and with regret, but does spend them when necessary. The good politician does the same thing with principles. There aren’t any fine burials for sacrificed principles, though.

~ Jack Campbell

Politics doesn't align with emotions. An emotional politician is most likely to be a tyrannical leader.

~ Henry Johnson Jr

Why is it so many politicians are wealthy?Is it because they make good investments?Or is it simply.Because they are good investments?

~ Anthony T. Hincks

Politics means implementation of the best ideas for the society in the path of wellbeing and progress.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Sociopaths are attracted to politics because the see it as a sphere in which you can be ruthless and step all over people. That fact that some politicians can tell such awful lies is another example of sociopathy. Sociopaths lie—they see nothing wrong with it.

~ Alexander Mccall Smith

One cannot enter a State legislature or a prison for felons without becoming, in some measure, a dubious character.

~ H.l. Mencken

It's easy for common people to say what they think about the government. No one listens to them.

~ Ljupka Cvetanova

Public justice is the greatest kind of show, my brother. Drama. Suspense. And best of all education en masse.

~ Khaled Hosseini

The tragedy waiting for politicians in future is greater than the gain in politics if it is measured, politicians kill, steal and betray the voters, but at the end they go to early grave, lose their peace and become miserable for the rest of their life.

~ Bamigboye Olurotimi

Liars are highly unlikely to admit their lies, never mind apologize for the hurt they’ve caused. Liars don’t genuinely apologize. Deceit has become their full-out lifestyle. They are centered on themselves with no thoughts of the consequences of their lies. In cowardly style, they tell more lies to try and cover their tracks. They are not good at admitting they actually have shortcomings.

~ Cathy Burnham Martin

Politicians are interested in the health of the people like predators savor live prey.

~ A.e. Samaan

Several centuries ago the greatest writer in history described the two most menacing clouds that hang over human government and human society as malice domestic and fierce foreign war. We are not rid of these dangers but we can summon our intelligence to meet them.Never was there more genuine reason for Americans to face down these two causes of fear. Malice domestic from time to time will come to you in the shape of those who would raise false issues, pervert facts, preach the gospel of hate, and minimize the importance of public action to secure human rights or spiritual ideals. There are those today who would sow these seeds, but your answer to them is in the possession of the plain facts of our present condition.

~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

I merely repeat, remember always your duty of enmity towards Man and all his ways. Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend. And remember also that in fighting against Man, we must not come to resemble him. Even when you have conquered him, do not adopt his vices. No animal must ever live in a house, or sleep in a bed, or wear clothes, or drink alcohol, or smoke tobacco, or touch money, or engage in trade. All the habits of Man are evil. And, above all, no animal must ever tyrannise over his own kind. Weak or strong, clever or simple, we are all brothers. No animal must ever kill any other animal. All animals are equal.

~ George Orwell

... In view of the violence of political power responsibility must always prevail. The only possible synthesis between conviction and responsibility is thus one in which passion is subordinated to responsibility, so that political responsibility is the primary value to be pursued with passion, thereby engendering what H. H. Bruun terms a 'responsible ethic of conviction.' Weber states: 'To be sure, mere passion, however genuinely felt, is not enough. It does not make a politician, unless passion as devotion to a cause also makes responsibility to this cause the guiding star of action.

~ Nicholas Gane

Unfortunately in today’s world a liar seems to be more reliable than a truthful honest man.

~ Munia Khan

To know the good from the bad, study a man or woman's history of actions, not their record of intentions.

~ Suzy Kassem

A politician is someone who knows everything about running a campaign and nothing about running a country.

~ James Rozoff

The only way to ensure democracy functions correctly is to question its governance constantly. Fail to do so and you may awake to find yourself living in a police state.

~ Stewart Stafford

I think this business of good vs. evil is of no interest to the power hungry

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

If you are my food, how am I supposed to feel pity towards you? That would mean starvation for me. “A hungry leopard told a fallen, panting, imploring gazelle

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

The universe runs on the principle that one who can exert the most evil on other creatures runs the show.

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

It was his first definite encounter with the wary-eyed, platitudinous, evasive Labour leaders, and he realised at once the formidable barrier ofinert leadership they constituted, between the discontented masses and constructive change. They seemed to be almost entirely preoccupied byinternecine intrigues and the discipline of the Party. They were steeped in Party professionalism. They were not in any way traitors to their cause, or wilfully reactionary, but they had no minds for a renascent world. They meant nothing, but they did not know they meant nothing. They regarded Rud just as in their time they had regarded Liberalism, Fabianism, Communism, Science, suspecting them all, learning nothing from them, blankly resistant. They did not want ideas in politics. They just wanted to be the official representatives of organised labour and make what they could by it. Their manner betrayed their invincible resolution, as strong as an animal instinct, to play politics according to the rules, to manoeuvre for positions, to dig themselves into positions -- and squat...

~ H.g. Wells

Life is politics, you do it or it does you

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

In politics what you see is not what you get

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Once you are in power, never forget those who put you there. Deal with those who think they can do better than you and those who think you are god's representative on earth. Deal with each other according to his actions

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Power hungry=life loving

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana