Battle Quote by Edwin Percy Whipple

A politician weakly and amiably in the right, is no match for a politician tenaciously and pugnaciously in the wrong.

— Anonymous

The politician is . . . trained in the art of inexactitude. His words tend to be blunt or rounded, because if they have…

— Edward R. Murrow

A politician must often talk and act before he has thought and read. He may be very ill informed respecting a question: all his…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

Politicians are like the bones of a horse's foreshoulder-not a straight one in it.

— Wendell Phillips

No man can be a competent legislator who does not add to an upright intention and a sound judgment a certain degree of knowledge…

— James Madison

It is hard for any one to be an honest politician who is not born and bred a Dissenter.

— William Hazlitt

A politician is a man who can be verbose in fewer words than anyone else.

— Peter De Vries

I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.

— Winston Churchill

I suppose, indeed, that in public life, a man whose political principles have any decided character and who has energy enough to give them…

— Thomas Jefferson

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

— Taylor Caldwell

a successful politician does not have convictions; he has emotions.

— Ellen Glasgow

Politicians around the world are very different, but they all have one thing in common: The first thing they respond to is public opinion.

— Yair Lapid