“These guys have no track record as politicians. They need to be judged by their acts and not by their words. Many officers have taken power saying they're going to leave power very soon. They say they'll just stay in power 'til we clean things up,' and they often stay much longer.”
Mike McGovern
“Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Be a politician; no training necessary.”
Will Rogers
“I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.”
Socrates
“A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar”
Henry Louis Mencken
“The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars.”
Gen William C. Westmoreland
“Politicians are a set of men who have interests aside from the interests of the people and who, to say the most of them, are, taken as a mass, at least one long step removed from honest men”
Abraham Lincoln
