Politician Quotes
1796 Politician quotes by 1143 unique authors
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Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
— Aristophanes
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Under every stone lurks a politician.
— Aristophanes
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Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
— Aristotle
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Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.
— Aristotle
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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance…
— Aristotle
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Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision.
— Dick Armey
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No politician was more maligned than Ronald Reagan.
— Michele Bachmann
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Though I'm a congresswoman by title, a politician I've never been.
— Michele Bachmann
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It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.
— Francis Bacon
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Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
— Lord Acton
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A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.
— Walter Bagehot
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A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump off the Godfather…
— Russell Baker
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November is Hip-Hop History Month, where we give celebration to what hip hop has done to bring together people of the world, people of all…
— Afrika Bambaataa
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Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
— Douglas Adams
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Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.
— Franklin P. Adams
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The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all…
— Franklin P. Adams
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I'm not a politician. I think that uniquely qualifies me to become president of the U.S.
— Roseanne Barr
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The real truth is, I just want to keep the voice of dissent alive in all of our elections. I don't really want to hang…
— Roseanne Barr
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In politics the middle way is none at all.
— John Adams
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The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us…
— Jean Baudrillard
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More and more political analysts and weak-kneed politicians are advising the historically pro-life Republican Party to abandon its pro-life stance for political gain. My first…
— Gary Bauer
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Barack Obama isn't the first politician to break a promise, torture the truth or outright lie to the American people. But, he certainly is among…
— Bob Beauprez
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The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.
— Tony Benn
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Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer…
— Wendell Berry
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It's always the small people who change things. It's never the politicians or the big guys. I mean, who pulled down the Berlin wall? It…
— Luc Besson
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