Done Quote by Antony Jay

There is this great idea about the logic of a politician, along the lines of: "Something must be done, this is something, therefore we…

— Antony Jay

Politicians get their power too late, and I think that he has inherited an impossible situation in which he is ill-equipped to deal.

— Malcolm Muggeridge

“So we have the dilemma put to us, What to do, when his power must continue two years longer and when the existence of…

— George Saunders

Fold him in his country's stars. Roll the drum and fire the volley! What to him are all our wars, What but death bemocking…

— George Henry Boker

He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If [politician] is not fulfilling his function, they then can set up the machinery to remove him from that position by whatever means necessary.

— Malcolm X

Let each citizen remember at the moment he is offering his vote...that he is executing one of the most solemn trusts in human society…

— Samuel Adams

He who wishes to serve his country must have not only the power to think, but the will to act

— Plato

He who goes about to reform the world must begin with himself, or he loses his labor.

— Anonymous

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

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

— George J. Mitchell

“Political organizations are formed to keep the powerful in power. Their first rule is “don’t rock the boat.” If someone makes trouble and you…

— Shirley Chisholm