Breeding Quote by Aristophanes

You have all the characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.

— Aristophanes

There are numerous bugbears in the profession of a politician. First, ordinary life suffers. Second, there are many temptations to ruin you and those…

— Boris Yeltsin

A great politician has great charisma.

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

“The other type of politician tends to be manipulative, selfish, and have unhealthy needs to be the center of attention. These people play games,…

— Richard L. Hughes

Politicians are interesting people and they have good and bad qualities.

— Sayaji Shinde

Even a good politician, someone who is very ambitious, chooses not to see trouble.

— Peter Sarsgaard

Daily and hourly, the politician inwardly has to overcome a quite trivial and all-too-human enemy: a quite vulgar vanity.

— Max Weber

[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 small politician, of low capacity and mean surroundings, proud to act as the servile tool of men worse than himself but also stronger…

— Theodore Roosevelt

You often see politicians who try to put on a different persona; they think they should be more jolly or serious. Invariably, the persona…

— David Frost

A professional politician is a professionally dishonorable man. In order to get anywhere near high office he has to make so many compromises and…

— H. L. Mencken

A politician normally prospers under democracy in proportion ... as he excels in the invention of imaginary perils and imaginary defenses against them.

— H. L. Mencken