Quotes by politician
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A politician divides mankind into two classes; tools and enemies.
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I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
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Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.
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A consensus politician is someone who does something that he doesn't believe is right because it keeps people quiet when he does it.
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A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.
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A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.
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A lot of people who voted for Barack Obama expected and were led to expect something new in politics: a new tone of political discourse in Washington. And I think - I think they're disappointed, because Barack Obama is not a new kind of politician. In fact, he's an old Chicago politician.
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A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and ten. It is at this age, when he would be too old to be a clerk or a gardener or a police-court magistrate, that he is ripe to govern a country.
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A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for 15 years.
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A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman.
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A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.
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A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.
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A politician is an ass upon which everyone has sat except a man.
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A politician must have some scruples, a certain decency; he cannot smear himself in the mud for the sake of a high ideal.
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A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.
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