Quotes on Politician

Who doesn’t respect and value his past, is not worth the honour of the present, and has no right to a future

Motivation gets you going and habit gets you there.

My respect for human beings is based not on the colour of a man’s skin nor authority he may wield, but purely on merit.

Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.

The politician and the government expert receive their revenues, not from service voluntarily purchased on the market, but from a compulsory levy on the populace. These officials, therefore, wholly lack the pecuniary incentive to care about serving the public properly and competently.

When politicians start talking about large groups of their fellow Americans as 'enemies,' it's time for a quiet stir of alertness. Polarizing people is a good way to win an election, and also a good way to wreck a country.

In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.

I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.

There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.

Politicians are forever coming up with 'solutions' to virtually every imaginable imperfection in life. But, if we give them more power and more of our money, we are very unlikely to end up better off on net balance.

For all cats have this particularity, each and every one, from the meanest alley sneaker to the proudest, whitest she that ever graced a pontiff's pillow — we have our smiles, as it were, painted on. Those small, cool, quite Mona Lisa smiles that smile we must, no matter whether it's been fun or it's been not. So all cats have a politician's air; we smile and smile and so they think we're villains

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

The ultimate test of a man's conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something today for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard.

It has been the political career of this man to begin with hypocrisy, proceed with arrogance, and finish with contempt

Cynicism cripples our imagination and limits our ability to see faint possibilities amidst glaring problems.

I have simply tried to do what seemed best each day, as each day came.

Wise politicians will be cautious about fettering the government with restrictions that cannot be observed, because they know that every break of the fundamental laws, though dictated by necessity, impairs that sacred reverence which ought to be maintained in the breast of rulers towards the constitution of a country.

Major international interventions are doomed unless the US is directly or indirectly involved. But if American politicians, officials and servicemen are to be put at risk of arrest and prosecution, the United States will be most reluctant to act in order to curb aggression or prevent genocide. So the effect of the court may well be to diminish, not increase, the numbers of (in the words of the UN Secretary General) 'innocents of distant wars and conflicts'.