Being Quote by Auberon Herbert

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

When a politician is in opposition he is an expert on the means to some end; and when he is in office he is…

— Anonymous

This is the way I think about politics: We want two diametrically opposed things from a politician. On one hand we want them to…

— Beau Willimon

I suppose, indeed, that in public life, a man whose political principles have any decided character and who has energy enough to give them…

— Thomas Jefferson

“No man on earth who conscientiously opposes either you or any other organized democracy, and flatly prevents a great many wrongs and illegalities from…

— Socrates

“[A]s it is impossible that any man endowed with rational faculties, and being in a state of freedom, should willingly agree, without some motive…

— Henry Fielding

“Our contemporaries are constantly excited by two conflicting passions: they want to be led, and they wish to remain free. As they cannot destroy…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only…

— John Galsworthy

People think of politicians having true power, but that's less and less true. After all, they are often constrained or being edged into a…

— Bernard Arnault

Whenever the powers of government are placed in any hands other than those of the community, whether those of one man, of a few,…

— James Mill

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

“Actuated by no personal motives, but moved only by high and great constitutional considerations; which I will not attempt to explain, for they are…

— Charles Dickens