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Politician Quotes by Margaret Thatcher
- Many of our troubles are due to the fact that our people turn to politicians for everything.
- It is not the business of politicians to please everyone.
- Whether it is in the United States or in mainland Europe, written constitutions have one great weakness. That is that they contain the potential to…
- To be free is better than to be unfree – always. Any politician who suggests the opposite should be treated as suspect.
- The West as a whole in the early 1990s become obsessed with a 'peace dividend' that would be spent over and over again on any…
- Major international interventions are doomed unless the US is directly or indirectly involved. But if American politicians, officials and servicemen are to be put at…
- That nations that have gone for equality, like Communism, have neither freedom nor justice nor equality, they've the greatest inequalities of all, the privileges of…
- Those who imagine that a politician would make a better figurehead than a hereditary monarch might perhaps make the acquaintance of more politicians.
- I am not a consensus politician. Im a conviction politician.
- The wisdom of hindsight, so useful to historians and indeed to authors of memoirs, is sadly denied to practicing politicians.
- I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.
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