(867 quotes found)
“Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.”
Henrik Ibsen
“A politician will do anything to keep his job - even become a patriot”
William Randolph
“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
“If all politicians fished instead of spoke publicly, we would be at peace with the world.”
Will Rogers
“Priests are no more necessary to religion than politicians to patriotism”
John Haynes Holmes
“I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.”
Socrates
“Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory.”
Salman Rushdie
“The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars.”
Gen William C. Westmoreland
“A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.”
James Freeman Clarke
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