politician quotes

17 quotes

Once elected, the Pope is by virtue of the promise of Jesus to Peter, the Pope is preserved from the possibility of error. God would change any spend thrift politician into a responsible Pope.

Pope Francis

The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.

Theodore Roosevelt

A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.

H. L. Mencken

The mark of a true politician is that he is never at a loss for words because he is always half-expecting to be asked to make a speech.

Richard M. Nixon

The old adage about giving a man a fish versus teaching him how to fish has been updated by a reader: Give a man a fish and he will ask for tartar sauce and French fries! Moreover, some politician who wants his vote will declare all these things to be among his ‚basic rights.‘

Thomas Sowell

I don’t think generally politician come from democratic country. I think not that thinking. But sometimes little bit short-sighted. They are mainly looking for their next vote.

Dalai Lama

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

H. L. Mencken

When a politician uses the word ‚folks,‘ we should brace ourselves for the deceit, or worse, that is coming.

Noam Chomsky

No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.

Winston Churchill

A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.

E. E. Cummings

A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.

H. L. Mencken

I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.

Charlie Chaplin

You may be educated abroad, you may be a great scientist, politician, but you always have a sneaking fear that if you don’t go to temples or do the ordinary things that you have been told to do, something evil might happen, so you conform. What happens to the mind that conforms? Investigate it, please.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

If you’re a politician, you might want to learn the Buddhist way of negotiation. Restoring communication and bringing back reconciliation is clear and concrete in Buddhism.

Thich Nhat Hanh

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

Francis Bacon

A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who’s been dead for 15 years.

Harry S. Truman

I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.

Socrates