Politician Quotes

In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant. (Charles de Gaulle)
A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman. View quote
David Lloyd George
Under every stone lurks a politician. View quote
Aristophanes
My choice early in life was either to be a piano-player in a whorehouse or a politician. And to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference. View quote
Harry S. Truman
A politician ... is a man who thinks of the next election; while the statesman thinks of the next generation. View quote
James Freeman Clarke
The politician in my country seeks votes, affection and respect, in that order. With few notable exceptions, they are simply men who want to be loved. View quote
Edward R. Murrow
You have all the characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner. View quote
Aristophanes
It is hard for any one to be an honest politician who is not born and bred a Dissenter. View quote
William Hazlitt
The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of trouble to imagine an ending to his sentence: and if he stopped short? His entire policy would be jeopardized! View quote
Roland Barthes
In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws. View quote
Emil Cioran
Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word. (Charles de Gaulle)
A politician will do anything to keep his job-even become a patriot. View quote
William Randolph Hearst
A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man. View quote
E. E. Cummings
A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth. View quote
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. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
I won't eat anything that has intelligent life, but I'd gladly eat a network executive or a politician. View quote
Marty Feldman
The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
There are numerous bugbears in the profession of a politician. First, ordinary life suffers. Second, there are many temptations to ruin you and those around you. And I suppose third, and this is rarely discussed, people at the top generally have no friends. View quote
Boris Yeltsin
A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country. View quote
Texas Guinan
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. View quote
H. G. Wells
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)
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. View quote
Charlie Chaplin
Coffee, which makes the politician wise, And see through all things with his half-shut eyes. View quote
Alexander Pope
A garden, you know, is a very usual refuge of a disappointed politician. Accordingly, I have purchased a few acres about nine miles from town, have built a house, and am cultivating a garden. View quote
Alexander Hamilton
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. View quote
Henry Miller