Politics Quote by Stefan Bachmann

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

— Ross Macdonald

“I remember someone saying that the importance of any public man can be gauged by the number of mellifluous young men he has about…

— Doris Lessing

“Jefferson was among the greatest men who had ever lived, a Renaissance figure who was formidable without seeming overbearing, sparkling without being showy, winning…

— Jon Meacham

“He thinks himself rather an exceptional young man, thoroughly sophisticated, well adjusted to his environment, and somewhat more significant than any one else he…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“He took no interest in politics, which ruin the character and career, yet nothing can be achieved without them.”

— E.M. Forster

“He was poor and foolish and people will always have a place in their hearts for the harmless.”

— Tim Winton

“Many would have disliked to live, if possessed of the peculiar features of Arthur Jermyn, but he had been a poet and a scholar…

— H.P. Lovecraft

“He was one of those who are driven early in life into too conservative an attitude by the bewildering folly of most revolutionists.”

— G.K. Chesterton

“He had no particular character, having always depended on his position in society to give him position among men.”

— D.H. Lawrence

“It didn’t matter who he might have been. That was not who he was now. He created himself each day and slowly built his…

— Ginn Hale

“A man full of warm, speculative benevolence may wish his society otherwise constituted than he finds it; but a good patriot, and a true…

— Edmund Burke

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

— Nick Taylor