Certain Quote by Boris Yeltsin

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

A politician is just like a pickpocket; it's almost impossible to get him to reform.

— Will Rogers

A politician is forced to make a habit of noble phrases and optimistic lies. In the end they infect himself.

— Storm Jameson

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

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 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

The conduct of a wise politician is ever suited to the present posture of affairs. Often by foregoing a part he saves the whole,…

— Plutarch

An honest politician is either a hypocrite - or he is doomed.

— Taylor Caldwell

Being a politician is a poor profession. Being a public servant is a noble one.

— Herbert Hoover

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

— Anonymous

A politician is the devil's quilted anvil; He fashions all sins on him, and the blows are never heard.

— John Webster