Politician Quotes

• 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.

  Winston Churchill

  Funny, Humorous, Next Week

  In B. Adler Churchill Wit (1965) p. 4

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• Only fools mistake politicians for messiahs.

  Kevin Barrett

  Mistake, Historical, Fool

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• I don't like my politicians entertaining me and I don't like my entertainers politicianing me.

  Craig Ferguson

  Politics, Entertaining, Entertainers

  "The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson", 2005-2014.

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• The news of any politician's death should be listed under Public Improvements.

  Frank Dane

  Death, News, Politics

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• In Mexico an air conditioner is called a politician because it makes a lot of noise but doesn't work very well.

  Len Deighton

  Funny, Air, Lenses

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• When politicians offer you something for nothing, or something that sounds too good to be true, it's always worth taking a careful second look.

  Malcolm Turnbull

  Sound, Looks, Too Good To Be True

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Giving a politician access to your wallet is like giving a dog access to your refrigerator.

  Tim Barber

  Dog, Giving, Political

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• The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.

  Ben Okri

  Magic, Attention, Common

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• Real leadership is leaders recognizing that they serve the people that they lead.

  Pete Hoekstra

  Inspirational, Leadership, Real

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• Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them.

  Charley Reese

  People, Campaigns, World

  "A Wise Man’s View of Washington Still Rings True" by Diane Dimond, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 18, 2013.

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• Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Sarcastic, Freedom

  'The Soul of Man under Socialism'

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• Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision.

  Dick Armey

  Trust, Children, Government

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• A real leader uses every issue, no matter how serious and sensitive, to ensure that at the end of the debate we should emerge stronger and more united than ever before.

  Nelson Mandela

  Leadership, Real, Issues

  FaceBook post by Nelson Mandela from Dec 05, 2013

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• The government is good at one thing. It knows how to break your legs, and then hand you a crutch and say, "See if it weren't for the government, you wouldn't be able to walk".

  Harry Browne

  Funny, Sarcastic, Integrity

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• Leadership is a privilege to better the lives of others. It is not an opportunity to satisfy personal greed.

  Mwai Kibaki

  Leadership, Power, Opportunity

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• In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Freedom, Political Will, Order

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• If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.

  H. L. Mencken

  Political, Promise, Missionary

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• No one will really understand politics until they understand that politicians are not trying to solve our problems. They are trying to solve their own problems - of which getting elected and re-elected are number one and number two. Whatever is number three is far behind.

  Thomas Sowell

  Two, Numbers, Political

  Thomas Sowell (2011). “Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (Large Print 16pt)”, p.88, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

  Francis Bacon

  Politics, Moral, Fierce

  Francis Bacon (1778). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England: In Five Volumes”, p.111

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• Any politician who can be elected only by turning Americans against other Americans is too dangerous to be elected.

  Thomas Sowell

  Usa, America, Political

  Thomas Sowell (2002). “Controversial Essays”, Hoover Inst Press

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• We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

  Aesop

  Witty, Government, Political Will

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Politicians love power. I love freedom. That is why I am not a politician.

  Victor Pinchuk

  Power Of Love, Love Freedom

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  Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.

  Groucho Marx

  Art, Freedom, Political Will

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• No matter what sort of adversity or challenge you might face, you can always believe that, with hope, it can be conquered and, in the end, you will be stronger for it.

  Brooke Ellison

  Being Strong, Encouraging, Hope

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• Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Life, Change

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1988). “The Will Rogers scrapbook”, Random House Value Publishing

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