Enemy Quote by Max Weber

A cool blooded and crafty politician, when he would be thoroughly revenged on his enemy, makes the injuries which have been inflicted, not on…

— Charles Caleb Colton

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

A professional politician is a professionally dishonorable man. In order to get anywhere near high office he has to make so many compromises and…

— H. L. Mencken

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

A politician is forced to make a habit of noble phrases and optimistic lies. In the end they infect himself.

— Storm Jameson

“It is part of the trivialization of politics that we give endless attention to the inner life of the politician - his private thoughts,…

— Charles Krauthammer

“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

You have all the characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.

— Aristophanes

You often see politicians who try to put on a different persona; they think they should be more jolly or serious. Invariably, the persona…

— David Frost

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

“politics is brutal because it engages the most fundamental human impulses for affection, honor, power, and fame. Great principles and grand visions are ennobling,…

— Jon Meacham

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