It has been said that politics is the second oldest…

Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession... and I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

— Ronald Reagan

I just can't tell you what fun I've had being a member of the world's second oldest profession.

— Christopher Plummer

Motherhood is the second oldest profession in the world. It never questions age, height, religious preference, health, political affiliation, citizenship, morality, ethnic background, marital…

— Erma Bombeck

“Espionage is the world's second oldest profession.”

— Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius

Storytelling: the world's second oldest profession.

— Danny Harris

Lobbying is the world's second - oldest profession.

— Bill Press

Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and temperate, and…

— Benjamin Franklin

Writing ... is a profession that can only be learned by writing.

— Simone de Beauvoir

Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich.

— Benjamin Franklin

Politics is my second love, next to my love for Raisa [Gorbacheva].

— Mikhail Gorbachev

Politics is my second passion, but as a historian, you have to be genuinely neutral. You have failed in your primary duty as a…

— Amanda Foreman

“She was not a political creature. She felt that politics was the second most evil thing humanity had ever invented, just after lutefisk.”

— James S.A. Corey

It will help erase the idea that politics is a second-rate profession and a dirty business.

— Anonymous

“Religion is probably, after sex, the second oldest resource which human beings have available to them for blowing their mind.”

— Susan Sontag

“by 2050, South Korea will have the second-oldest population in the developed world, with nearly seven people over the age of 65 for every working-age adult.”

— Anonymous