(887 quotes found)
“Priests are no more necessary to religion than politicians to patriotism”
John Haynes Holmes
“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
“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
“I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.”
Socrates
“Apparently Arnold was inspired by President Bush, who proved you can be a successful politician in this country even if English is your second language.”
Conan O'Brien
“The mistake a lot of politicians make is in forgetting they've been appointed and thinking they've been anointed.”
Claude Pepper
“Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senat.”
Orson Welles
“It has been the political career of this man to begin with hypocrisy, proceed with arrogance, and finish with contempt”
Thomas Paine
“It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.”
Thomas Sowell
