Compromise Quote by H. L. Mencken

A politician must have some scruples, a certain decency; he cannot smear himself in the mud for the sake of a high ideal.

— Boris Yeltsin

[A politician is] a person skilled in the art of compromise. Usually an elected official who has compromised to get nominated, compromised to get…

— Dick Gregory

What is inherently wrong with the word 'politician' if the fellow has devoted his life to holding public office and trying to do something…

— Richard J. Daley

Being a politician is a poor profession. Being a public servant is a noble one.

— Herbert Hoover

Daily and hourly, the politician inwardly has to overcome a quite trivial and all-too-human enemy: a quite vulgar vanity.

— Max Weber

There are numerous bugbears in the profession of a politician. First, ordinary life suffers. Second, there are many temptations to ruin you and those…

— Boris Yeltsin

A small politician, of low capacity and mean surroundings, proud to act as the servile tool of men worse than himself but also stronger…

— Theodore Roosevelt

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

— Peter De Vries

A politician normally prospers under democracy in proportion ... as he excels in the invention of imaginary perils and imaginary defenses against them.

— H. L. Mencken

This idea that you can't be an honest man and a Washington politician is a myth, a crock made up by sellouts and careerist…

— Matt Taibbi

Politics, under a democracy, reduces itself to a mere struggle for office by flatterers of the proletariat; even when a superior man prevails at…

— H. L. Mencken

“The other type of politician tends to be manipulative, selfish, and have unhealthy needs to be the center of attention. These people play games,…

— Richard L. Hughes