Politicians Quotes

• If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.

• You've got to vote for someone. It's a shame, but it's got to be done.

• The two parties which divide the state, the party of Conservatism and that of Innovation, are very old, and have disputed the possession of the world ever since it was made.

• A garden, you know, is a very usual refuge of a disappointed politician. Accordingly, I have purchased a few acres about nine miles from town, have built a house, and am cultivating a garden.

• There is no such thing as a nonpolitical speech by a politician.

• He has been called a mediocre man; but this is unwarranted flattery. He was a politician of monumental littleness.

• If I wanted to go crazy I would do it in Washington because it would not be noticed.

• Mothers may still want their sons to grow up to be President, but according to a famous Gallup poll of some years ago, some 73 percent do not want them to become politicians in the process.

• That's the trouble with a politician's life-somebody is always interrupting it with an election.

• He that would govern others, first should be the master of himself.

• I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

• Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

• Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.

• Now I know what a statesman is; he's a dead politician. We need more statesmen.

• Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians.

• An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.

• You have all the characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.

• Under every stone lurks a politician.

• Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.

• Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.

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