Politicians

As in private life one differentiates between what a man thinks and says of himself and what he really is and does, so in historical struggles one must still more distinguish the language and the imaginary aspirations of parties from their real organism and their real interests, their conception of themselves from their reality.

- Karl Marx Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

What we need in appointive positions are men of knowledge and experience with sufficient character to resist temptations.

- Calvin Coolidge Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.

- Plato Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Within the first few months I discovered that being president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep riding or be swallowed.

- Harry S Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Politics is the art of the next best.

- Otto Bismarck Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

He speaks to Me as if I was a public meeting.

- Queen Victoria Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Successful democratic politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle, or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies. The decisive consideration is not whether the proposition is good but whether it is popular -- not whether it will work well and prove itself but whether the active talking constituents like it immediately. Politicians rationalize this servitude by saying that in a democracy public men are the servants of the people.

- Walter Lippmann Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

You are pitiful isolated individuals you are bankrupts your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on -- into the dustbin of history

- Leon Trotsky Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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

- Henry Kissinger Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Politics is a profession where the paths of glory lead but to the gravy.

- Billy Boy Franklin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Rome had Senators too, and that is why it declined.

- Frank Dane Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted in the air.

- Franklin Delano Roosevelt Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.

- Hans Enzensberger Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

- Franklin Delano Roosevelt Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised.

- Jesse Jackson Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

A politician is one that would circumvent God.

- William Shakespeare Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Resolved to ruin or to rule the state.

- John Dryden Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

If it's going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.

- Henry Kissinger Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Nobody is a friend of ours. Let's face it.

- Richard Nixon Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Politics, when I am in it, it makes me sick.

- William Taft Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.

- Edward Halifax Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Son, in politics you've got to learn that overnight chicken shit can turn to chicken salad.

- Lyndon B. Johnson Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Whether elected or appointed he considers himself the Lord's anointed, and indeed the ointment lingers on him so thick you can't get your fingers on him.

- Ogden Nash Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I played by the rules of politics as I found them.

- Richard Nixon Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes