(887 quotes found)
“Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar”
Henry Louis Mencken
“The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars.”
Gen William C. Westmoreland
“Politicians are a set of men who have interests aside from the interests of the people and who, to say the most of them, are, taken as a mass, at least one long step removed from honest men”
Abraham Lincoln
“Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you, or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country? If you are the first, then you are a parasite; if the second, then you are an oasis in the desert”
Kahlil Gibran
“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
“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
“A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.”
James Freeman Clarke
“Be a politician; no training necessary.”
Will Rogers
