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Politician Quotes by George Will
- The cultivation - even celebration - of victimhood by intellectuals, tort lawyers, politicians and the media is both cause and effect of today's culture of…
- All politicians are to some extent salesmen.
- When a politician says, concerning an issue involving science, that the debate is over, you may be sure the debate is rolling on and not…
- Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good.
- A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.
- Politics in a democracy is transactional: Politicians seek votes by promising to do things for voters, who seek promises in exchange for their votes.
- Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.
More Politician Quotes
- Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner. — Aristophanes
- Under every stone lurks a politician. — Aristophanes
- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle
- Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. — Aristotle
- What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue… — Aristotle
- Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey
- No politician was more maligned than Ronald Reagan. — Michele Bachmann
- Though I'm a congresswoman by title, a politician I've never been. — Michele Bachmann
- It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral. — Francis Bacon
- Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. — Lord Acton
- A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities. — Walter Bagehot
- A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump… — Russell Baker