Quotes on Politician

The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.

What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race?

If politicians stopped meddling with things they don't understand, there would be a more drastic reduction in the size of government than anyone in either party advocates.

In general people put too much faith in the rich, the famous, the politicians, and not enough faith in themselves.

Politicians are not born; they are excreted.

All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field.

We don't stop talking about how the world might be better just because we have no chance of making it to Prime Minister. We are all politicians. We are all artists. In an open society everything the mind and hands can achieve is our birthright. It is up to us to claim it.

If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find some other causes for prejudice by noon.

How can I, that girl standing there, My attention fix On Roman or on Russian Or on Spanish politics? Yet here's a travelled man that knows What he talks about, And there's a politician That has read and thought, And maybe what they say is true Of war and war's alarms, But O that I were young again And held her in my arms!

Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.

Under every stone lurks a politician.

The real reason that we can’t have the Ten Commandments in a courthouse: You cannot post “Thou shalt not steal,” “Thou shalt not commit adultery,” and “Thou shalt not lie” in a building full of lawyers, judges, and politicians. It creates a hostile work environment.

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

Well done is better than well said.