(887 quotes found)
“The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.”
Ben Okri
“Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision.”
Dick Armey
“The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.”
Benjamin Disraeli
“CORSAIR, n. A politician of the seas.”
Ambrose Bierce
“It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil,... that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.”
George McGovern
“Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be.”
Marshall McLuhan
“The reason there are so few female politicians is that it is too much trouble to put makeup on two faces.”
Maureen Murphy
“I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.”
Charles de Gaulle
“Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.”
Robert Orben
“Like its politicians and its war, society has the teenagers it deserves”
Joseph Priestley
