A disposition to preserve and an ability to improve taken together would be my standard of a statesman.
He knows nothing he thinks he knows everything - that clearly points to a political career.
A new Member requires the experience of his first session in the House to teach him how to hang up his overcoat and take his seat in a manner befitting a gentlemen.
A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies.
Now that all the members of the press are so delighted I lost I'd like to make a statement. As I leave you I want you to know -just think how much you'll be missing. You won't have Nixon to kick arou...
He is a pragmatist. He is not right wing nor left wing nor any wing.
Politicians were mostly people who'd had too little morals and ethics to stay lawyers.
The artist and the politician stand at opposite poles. The artist enhances life by his prolonged concentration upon it, while the politician emphasizes the impersonal aspect of life by his attempts to...
The main problem in any democracy is that crowd-pleasers are generally brainless swine who can go out on a stage & whup their supporters into an orgiastic frenzy—then go back to the office & sell ever...
Tous les hommes politiques d'aujourd'hui, selon Pontevin, sont un peu danseurs, et tous les danseurs se mêlent de politique, ce qui, toutefois, ne devrait pas nous amener à les confondre. Le danseur s...
Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.
Character assassination of a politician is a victimless crime
90% of the politicians give the other 10% a bad reputation.
I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for the day.
A ginooine statesman should be on his guard if he must hev beliefs not to b'lieve 'em too hard.
Your representative owes you not his industry only but his judgement and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
Never retract never explain never apologize - get the thing done and let them howl.
A death that results from your actions is basically killing someone, unless you’re a politician, right?
PR guys get paid to make people believe that a pile of shit is an investment in soil fertility. Professional liars.Ah! Manannan’s expression lit with comprehension. They are politicians?
He was harassed, but still he spoke with authority. He was, in fact, characteristic of the best type of dominant male in the world at this time. He was fifty-five years old, tough, shrewd, unburdened...
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