Agitation Quote by Ambrose Bierce

“When a legislator succeeds, after persevering efforts, in exercising an indirect influence upon the destiny of nations, his genius is lauded by mankind, whilst,…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

[A politician is] a person skilled in the art of compromise. Usually an elected official who has compromised to get nominated, compromised to get…

— Dick Gregory

A politician must have some scruples, a certain decency; he cannot smear himself in the mud for the sake of a high ideal.

— Boris Yeltsin

“The general ethos of the people they have to govern determines the behaviour of politicians.”

— T.S. Eliot

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

— H. L. Mencken

It is unnatural that a pure stream should flow from a foul fountain its vices are but a continuation of the vices of its…

— Thomas Paine

“A politician’s word is like a thick tree branch, and the people are all hanging on it. Well, I’ve got noose for you, politicians…

— Jarod Kintz

The legislator is like the navigator of a ship on the high seas. He can steer the vessel on which he sails, but he…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“If a man’s a constant hand-shaker, he must be a politician or a crook—or both, if he is a politician.”

— Jarod Kintz

A politician is an animal who can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground

— American Proverb

Politicians are like the bones of a horse's foreshoulder-not a straight one in it.

— Wendell Phillips

A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country.

— Anonymous