Politics and Politicians Quotes

  • A politician will do anything to keep his job even become a patriot.
    ~ William Randolph Hearst
  • Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.
    ~ Ernest Benn
  • The word 'politics' is derived from the word 'poly', meaning 'many', and the word 'ticks', meaning 'blood sucking parasites'.
    ~ Larry Hardiman
  • Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.
    ~ Mao Zedong
  • Politics - I don't know why, but they seem to have a tendency to separate us, to keep us from one another, while nature is always and ever making efforts to bring us together.
    ~ Sean O`Casey
  • One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
    ~ Plato
  • Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
    ~ George Burns
  • Honesty in politics is much like oxygen. The higher up you go, the scarcer it becomes.
  • A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life.
    ~ Robert Byrne
  • A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country.
    ~ Texas Guinan
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