Politics Quote by Pierce Brown

“What did he want?” Sevro asks. “What do all politicians want?” “Prostitutes.”

— Pierce Brown

“He would behave in the same way, say the same things, give himself completely to anybody who came along, anybody and everybody who liked…

— D.H. Lawrence

“Hungry for what? Money? No. Power? Over people? That was like having power over clams.”

— Victor Robert Lee

“no different from the myriad of other politicos he’d bought and sold from around the world, men and women eager for power and lacking…

— Steve Berry

“It's like he never wanted anything, but only thought and fretted about what he should want, what other people wanted him to want.”

— Jardine Libaire

“is like asking a politician to achieve high office without the benefit of bribes or patronage.”

— Susanna Clarke

“In politics, if you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman”

— Margaret Thatcher

“His main problem, he knew, would be controlling the press.”

— Sidney Sheldon

“Forget politics, his father had always said. Just give 'em something they need, or they'll eat you alive.”

— Joe Schreiber

“He was half a politician, and like most of his kind he was an insecure man.”

— Ross Macdonald

“He was driven by some deeper urge to smash the one thing left in the world that could discipline him: the government.”

— Jane Mayer

“Are you a politician? I hate politicians, he said. And, in any case, there's no such thing anymore: only sycophants and dissidents.”

— Daniel Alarcon