Politics Quote by John Ripin Miller

“is the only politician whose words are less than his deeds.” The”

— Gerard Helferich

“He was a consummate politician-- which is to say he was given to expedient speech and lacked even a vestigial spine.”

— Nick Taylor

“Politicians did not represent the people who elected them.  They might have held onto the delusion that they served the public, but the only…

— Richard Stephenson

“I do not speak of that greatness which is achieved by the fortunate politician or the successful soldier; that is a quality which belongs…

— W. Somerset Maugham

A general must be a charlatan.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“The general ethos of the people they have to govern determines the behaviour of politicians.”

— T.S. Eliot

No man can be a politician, except he be first a historian or a traveller; for except he can see what must be, or…

— James Harrington

That politician who curries favor with the citizens and indulges them and fawns upon them and has a presentiment of their wishes, and is…

— Plato

“Politics is a strong and slow boring of hard boards. It takes both passion and perspective. Certainly all historical experience confirms the truth -…

— Max Weber

Most politicians are either generalists or specialists. It's very rare that a politician is both.

— Margrethe Vestager

“A purely and passionately political person, as I understand, is a person who can find anybody pleasant so long as Politics is never present.”

— Criss Jami

“Presidents could be fickle and arbitrary. Each new one with wildly different visions and priorities. And when all was said and done, they were…

— Douglas E. Richards