(887 quotes found)
“I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.”
Winston Churchill
“The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.”
Theodore Roosevelt
“Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him.”
Charles de Gaulle
“A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.”
“We need to decide that we will not go to war, whatever reason is conjured up by the politicians or the media, because war in our time is always indiscriminate, a war against innocents, a war against children”
Howard Zinn
“No wonder Americans hate politics, when year in, year out, they hear politicians make promises that won't come true because they don't even mean them.”
Bill Clinton
“People expect Byzantine, Machiavellian logic from politicians. But the truth is simple. Trial lawyers learn a good rule: 'Don't decide what you don't have to decide.' That's not evasion, it's wisdom.”
Mario Cuomo
“I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress”
Frederick Douglass
“I once said cynically of a politician, "He'll double-cross that bridge when he comes to it”
Oscar Levant
“Whoever makes two ears of corn, or two blades of grass to grow where only one grew before, deserves better of mankind, and does more essential service to his country than the whole race of politicians put together”
Jonathan Swift
