Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
The Cuban Missile Crisis. It had to do with Cuba and missiles, I'm pretty sure.
We must pray for our leaders, to rule in righteousness.
Politicians obfuscate. It gets them re-elected. If no-one can understand what is going on, then the perception is that we need someone to guide us through the fog. Many people want to be led. A few pe...
In their quest for power and self-importance, to compensate for whatever feelings of social inadequacy or sexual insecurity, they (Politicians)are prepared to perpetrate something which is hard to dis...
A distinguished clergyman told me that he chose the profession of a clergyman because it afforded the most leisure for literary pursuits. I would recommend to him the profession of a governor.
He came away with an exasperated sense of failure. He denounced parliamentary government root and branch that night. Parliament was doomed. The fact that it had not listened to Rud was only one little...
When you confidently defend fiction, think about reality also
Under every stone lurks a politician.
A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree if you agree with him he is a statesman.
Whin a man gets to be my age he ducks political meetin's an' reads th' papers an' weighs th' ividence an' th' argymints - pro-argymints an' con-argymints an' makes up his mind ca'mly an' votes th'...
The day terrorists realize there acts unite us, they might switch places with Politicians.
All politicians are said to be thieves but all thieves are not politicians which implies that some thieves do have a conscience.
Nothing is more egregious than greedy politicians.
there can be no failure to a human who has not lost his courage, unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, human does not lose his being in the society in which he lives
The most important office is that of private citizen.
The difference between a politician and a statesman is that a politician thinks about the next election while the statesman think about the next generation.
I have a deep and profound mistrust of all politicians.
It is hard to hear the truth from people who get paid to distort it.
People tell me that I should become a politician but I say no I want to do something good for the nation.
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