Famous Quotations About Politicians And Politics

Here are some famous quotations about politicians and politics. We have quotes made by H. L. Mencken, Mark Twain, and others.

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A conservative is a statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the liberal who wishes to replace them with others.

A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.

A parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.

A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he is a statesman.

A politician is like quicksilver; if you try to put your finger on him, you will find nothing under it.

A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman, of the next generation.

A statesman is a politician who's been dead ten or fifteen tears.

All politics are based on the indifference of the majority.

Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.

Crime does not pay ... as well as politics.

Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.

I am not a politician, and my other habits are good.

I can remember when a good politician had to be 75 percent ability and 25 percent actor, but I can well see the day when the reverse could be true.

I have views on most matters, and am as willing as a politician to change most of them.

I've seen many politicians paralyzed in the legs as myself, but I've seen more of them who were paralyzed in the head.

In politics nothing is contemptible.

It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctively native American criminal class - except Congress.

Most schemes of political improvement are very laughable things.

Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be President but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.

My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman's dance.

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