The best Quotes and Sayings about Politicians

When politics is no longer a mission but a profession, politicians become more self-serving than public servants.

Nations have come under the control of haters and fools.

The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error.

Pro football gave me a good sense of perspective to enter politics: I'd already been booed, cheered, cut, sold, traded and hung in effigy.

If presidents can't do it to their wives, they do it to their country.

If you watch the news, you see politicians use human vulnerabilities to get in and earn people's trust.

I would rather be beaten, and be a man, than to be elected and be a little puppy dog.

It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.

You know, you're gonna have to get much better at lying if you want to be president.

Presidents who obsess over history obsess about their place in it, instead of forging it.

The president is like a lone tree in an empty field. He leans whichever way the wind is blowing.

A smart man once said to me that speculation is a poor form of politics. Why don't you stick to what you know?

It's been my experience that Senators are only focused on pleasing those who fund their campaigns and they are more than willing to forget the niceties of democracy to get those funds.

A political man is disgusting, but a political wife, horrible.

Artists use lies to tell the truth, while politicians use them to cover the truth up.

Baldridge: 'So Dr. Lightman just assumes you're a liar if you're a politician?'
Gillian Foster: 'He assumes you're a liar if you're a Homo sapiens.'