Politician Quotes - Page 35

• A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they arent still there, hes no longer a political leader.

  Bernard Baruch

  Time, Boys, Leader

  In New York Times 21 June 1965, p. 16

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• Get involved in an issue that you're passionate about. It almost doesn't matter what it is ... We give too much of our power away, to the professional politicians, to the lobbyists, to cynicism. And our democracy suffers as a result.

  Barack Obama

  Inspirational, Issues, Giving

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• Advertising is simply a use of the right of the manufacture to present his case and to employ the same arts of appeal and persuasion accorded to the politician, the preacher, the lawyer, and to every other individual who has a special interest in something, whether a creed or a commodity.

  Raymond Rubicam

  Art, Business, Special

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• Consider him in his highest incarnation: the university professor. What is his function? Simply to pass on to fresh generations of numskulls a body of so-called knowledge that is fragmentary, unimportant, and, in large part, untrue. His whole professional activity is circumscribed by the prejudices, vanities and avarices of his university trustees, i.e., a committee of soap-boilers, nail manufacturers, bank-directors and politicians. The moment he offends these vermin he is undone. He cannot so much as think aloud without running a risk of having them fan his pantaloons.

  H. L. Mencken

  Education, Running, Thinking

  "Minority Report".

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

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Fear, Wickedness, Politics

  'Table Talk' (1835) 5 October 1830

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• Politicians are always interested in people. Not that this is always a virtue. Fleas are interested in dogs.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Dog, Freedom, People

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government”, p.58, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I enjoy looking like a tart and thinking like a politician.

  PJ Harvey

  Music, Thinking, Enjoy

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• As you probably know, some American politicians and American journalists refer to Washington, DC as the "capital of the free world." But it seems to me that Brussels, which boasts 1,000 years of history and which serves as the capital of Belgium, the home of the European Union, and the headquarters for NATO, this city has its own legitimate claim to that title.

  Joe Biden

  Home, Years, Cities

  "Biden Says Brussels Could Be 'Capital of the Free World'", www.foxnews.com. May 25, 2010.

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• Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

  Dalton Camp

  Political, Politics, Made

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• A politician... one that would circumvent God.

  William Shakespeare

  God, Politics

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 5, sc. 1, l. [84]

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• When a politician is in opposition he is an expert on the means to some end; and when he is in office he is an expert on the obstacles to it.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Mean, Office, Experts

  Illustrated London News, April 6, 1918.

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• Accuse American businessmen of being responsible for radicalism and they would indignantly deny the accusation. Yet, in one fundamental sense, they are responsible. They are responsible in the sense that they have utterly neglected to take part in the work and the organization which precede the choosing of candidates for political office. Local political organizations all over the land are conducted and controlled, as a rule, by politicians.... Businessmen have shirked such responsibilities, leaving an untrammeled field to others less capable of carrying on the administration of government.

  B. C. Forbes

  Responsibility, Government, Land

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• One blames politicians, not for inconsistency but for obstinacy. They are the interpreters, not the masters, of our fate. It is their job, in fact, to register the fact accompli.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Jobs, Fate, Politics

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• In America you can go on the air and kid the politicians, and the politicians can go on the air and kid the people.

  Groucho Marx

  Inspirational, Kids, Air

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

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

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Men, Air, Feet

  Radio address, 26 Oct. 1939

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• 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.

  Herbert Spencer

  Politics, Social, Structure

  Herbert Spencer (1894). “The Man Versus the State: Containing "The New Toryism," "The Coming Slavery," "The Sins of Legislators" and "The Great Political Superstition”

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• A politician is a man who can be verbose in fewer words than anyone else.

  Peter De Vries

  Men, Politics, Fewer

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• The [Liberal] federal government's trouble is that they have a wishbone where they should have a backbone.

  Tommy Douglas

  Government, Should Have, Political

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• When a man has done me an evil turn once, I don't like to give him the opportunity to do so twice.

  John A. Macdonald

  Opportunity, Men, Evil

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• Nothing would please the Kremlin more than to have the people of this country choose a second rate president.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Country, People, Political

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• There will be no silence from Canada. Our friendship has no limit. Generation after generation we have traveled many difficult miles together side by side.

  Jean Chretien

  Silence, Political, Together

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• The more successful a political party, the more winning its ways, the less of its time is spent casting about for policy or determining it principles. But, political parties with principles or even without them, have a common need for money; someone has to pay for the television commercials.

  Dalton Camp

  Party, Successful, Winning

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• Experts are just trained dogs.

  Albert Einstein

  Dog, Political, Experts

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• Great obstacles make great leaders.

  Billy Diamond

  Leader, Political, Politics

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• If politicians lived on praise and thanks they'd be forced into some other line of business.

  Edward Heath

  Political, Lines, Politics

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

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