“The question is, why are politicians so eager to be president? What is it about the job that makes it worth revealing, on national television, that you have the ethical standards of a slime-coated piece of industrial waste?”
Dave Barry
“Men say I am a saint losing himself in politics. The fact is that I am a politician trying my hardest to become a saint.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“Most political leaders acquire their position by causing large numbers of people to believe that these leaders are actuated by altruistic desires”
Bertrand Russell
“A statesman is he who thinks in the future generations, and a politician is he who thinks in the upcoming elections.”
Abraham Lincoln
“A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.”
James Freeman Clarke
“It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.”
Henrik Ibsen
“Priests are no more necessary to religion than politicians to patriotism”
John Haynes Holmes
