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Politician Quotes by P.J. O'Rourke
- Politics is the business of getting power and privilege without possessing merit. A politician is anyone who asks individuals to surrender part of their liberty…
- God has no role to play in politics except to make sure politicians go where they belong. To hell.
- You can't get something for nothing. Everybody remembers this except politicians.
- You'll note that politicians no longer spend money, they invest it. Don't worry about paying more to the [IRS]. You aren't being taxed; you're taking…
- I rarely meet a politician that I don't like personally. They are generally well endowed with charm. Therein lies the danger.
- Distracting a politician from governing is like distracting a bear from eating your baby.
- Political systems are run by self-selecting politicians. We don't draft people; it's not jury duty.
- Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite…
- There is no virtue in compulsory government charity, and there is no virtue in advocating it. A politician who portrays himself as "caring" and "sensitive"…
- Politicians are wonderful people as longa as they stay away from things they don't understand, such as working for a living.
- Politicians are always interested in people. Not that this is always a virtue. Fleas are interested in dogs.
- Raining on parades requires no skill or effort on the part of a politician.
- You say we [reporters] are distracting...from the business of government. Well, I hope so. Distracting a politician from governing is like distracting a bear from…
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