We chose younger and younger politicians to lead us because they looked good on television and were sharp. But really we should be looking for wisdom, and choosing people who had acquired it; and such...
Politicians were mostly people who'd had too little morals and ethics to stay lawyers.
A death that results from your actions is basically killing someone, unless you’re a politician, right?
90% of the politicians give the other 10% a bad reputation.
How strange it is that the house of these hedonic stalwarts is filled with all the luxuries of life, right from plasma televisions to Swiss bank cheque books. So how will they notice the tonnes of foo...
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.
Modern war, modern international hostility is, I believe, possible only through the stupid illiteracy of the mass of men and the conceit and intellectual indolence of rulers and those who feed the pub...
Never retract never explain never apologize - get the thing done and let them howl.
Since a politician never believes what he says he is surprised when others believe him.
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...
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?
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.
He is a pragmatist. He is not right wing nor left wing nor any wing.
A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies.
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.
He knows nothing he thinks he knows everything - that clearly points to a political career.
If we are strong our strength will speak for itself. If we are weak words will be no help.
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...
A ginooine statesman should be on his guard if he must hev beliefs not to b'lieve 'em too hard.
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.