Famous Quotes about Politicians and Politics (341 Quotations)

A politician will do anything to keep his job, even become a patriot.

A politician would do well to remember that he has to live with his conscience longer than he does with his constituents.

A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.

A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life.

A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted in the air.

A recent survey was said to prove that the people we Americans most admire are our politicians and doctors. I don't believe it. They are simply the people we are most afraid of. And with the most reason.

A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself.

A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer — that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a knave nor an honest man, but is a sort of whiffing, shuffling, cunning, silly, contemptible, unmeaning negation of the two.

All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.

All politics takes place on a slippery slope. The most important four words in politics are ''up to a point.''

Although he's regularly asked to do so, God does not take sides in American politics.

An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

An honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought.

Any 20 year-old who isn't a liberal doesn't have a heart, and any 40 year-old who isn't a conservative doesn't have a brain.

Any established village; could afford a town drunkard, a town atheist, and a few Democrats.

Any man with a fine shock of hair, a good set of teeth, and a bewitching smile can park his brains, if he has any, and run for public office.

As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date.

As in private life one differentiates between what a man thinks and says of himself and what he really is and does, so in historical struggles one must still more distinguish the language and the imaginary aspirations of parties from their real organism and their real interests, their conception of themselves from their reality.

As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound.

At home you always have to be a politician. When you're abroad you almost feel yourself a statesman.