Quotes on Politician

Language is a weapon of politicians, but language is a weapon in much of human affairs.

War in the end is always about betrayal, betrayal of the young by the old, of soldiers by politicians, and of idealists by cynics.

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

Politicians neither love nor hate. Interest, not sentiment, directs them.

The politicians and the religious leaders and the weapons scientists have been at it for a long time and they've made a thorough mess of it. I mean, we're in deep trouble.

The older I get the more I'm convinced that it's the purpose of politicians and journalists to say the world is very simple, whereas it's the purpose of historians to say, 'No! It's very complicated.' _x000D_ _x000D_ The job of the historian is to help give people a sense of existence in time, without which we are really not fully human.

I remain just one thing, and one thing only - and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.

Modern American politicians have the same cowardice about denying an equally bloodthirsty even sillier god, Jehovah._x000D_ _x000D_ None of us would seriously consider the possibility that all the gods of Homer really exist... I think that all of us would say in regard to those gods that we were atheists. In regard to the Christian God, I should, I think, take exactly the same line.

Politics: Poli a Latin word meaning many and tics meaning bloodsucking creatures.

Be a listener only, keep within yourself, and endeavor to establish with yourself the habit of silence, especially in politics.

We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values.

Legislators and revolutionaries who promise both equality and liberty are visionaries and charlatans.

Politics is a way of ruling in divided societies without undue violence...politics is not just a necessary evil; it is a realistic good.

Great and glorious events which dazzle the beholder are represented by politicians as the outcome of grand designs whereas they are usually products of temperaments and passions.

No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

There is no more great men; there is only great committees.

Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.

Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it.

The question of questions for the politicians should ever be-What type of social structure am I tending to produce? But this is a question he never entertains.

A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted-in the air.