Politician Quotes

A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.
Winston Churchill

Tomorrow, Happen, Why

I don't think generally politician come from democratic country. I think not that thinking. But sometimes little bit short-sighted. They are mainly looking for their next vote.
Dalai Lama

Thinking, Country, Sometimes

No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.
Winston Churchill

Education, Fighting, Elections

Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country? If you are the first, then you are a parasite; if the second, then you are an oasis in the desert.
Khalil Gibran

Country, Second, Asking

I get no respect. The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I would be honest.
Rodney Dangerfield

Respect, Honest, Luck

I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
Socrates

Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Wise, Lead, Rule

The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.
Theodore Roosevelt

Successful, Thinking, Often

If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.
H. L. Mencken

Found, Promise, Among

A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.
H. L. Mencken

Good, Honest, Quite

I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.
Charlie Chaplin

Far, Clown, Places

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 E. Stevenson

Hypocrite, Down, Speech

A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.
H. L. Mencken

Keep, Both, Sit

I had three points I wanted to make: That not everybody in Hollywood is on the left, that Obama has broken a lot of the promises he made when he took office, and that the people should feel free to get rid of any politician who's not doing a good job. But I didn't make up my mind exactly what I was going to say until I said it.
Clint Eastwood

Good, Mind, Job

Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.
Doug Larson

Change, Giving, Might

A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.
e. e. cummings

Everyone, Except, Sat

A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.
James Freeman Clarke

Election, Next, Generation

The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I would be honest.
Rodney Dangerfield

Honest, Luck, Running

Where is the politician who has not promised to fight to the death for lower taxes- and who has not proceeded to vote for the very spending projects that make tax cuts impossible?
Barry Goldwater

Death, Fight, Impossible

A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.
Hubert H. Humphrey

Life, Nature, Public

A politician should have three hats. One for throwing into the ring, one for talking through, and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected.
Carl Sandburg

Through, Three, Talking

Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be.
Marshall McLuhan

Politics, Happy, Powerful

A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.
H. G. Wells

I'm not a professional politician. I'm a professional problem solver, and I believe we should cut the salaries of senators and congressmen 10 percent until they balance the budget. I call that conservative common sense.
Herman Cain

Problem, Sense, Until

One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are.
Cal Thomas

Politics, Power, Truth

I think I should be active politically. Because I look upon myself as a politician. That's not a dirty work you know. Some people think that there are something wrong with politicians. Of course, something wrong with some politicians.
Aung San Suu Kyi

Work, Wrong, Dirty

I rarely meet a politician that I don't like personally. They are generally well endowed with charm. Therein lies the danger.
P. J. O'Rourke

Lies, Meet, Danger

When I'm not a politician, I'll be dead.
Barry Goldwater

Hip-hop has done so much for racial relations, and I don't think it's given the proper credit. It has changed America immensely. I'm going to make a very bold statement: Hip-hop has done more than any leader, politician, or anyone to improve race relations.
Jay-Z

Done, America, Leader

In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
Charles de Gaulle

Become, Order, Master

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