Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
Ambrose BierceTag: definitions politicians
The difference between a politician and a statesman is that a politician thinks about the next election while the statesman think about the next generation.
James Freeman ClarkeTag: politics politicians statesmen
He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.
George Bernard ShawTag: politics ignorance arrogance politicians
I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician
Charlie ChaplinTag: self-image politicians
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In the present case it is a little inaccurate to say I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible to any public office of trust or profit in the Republic. But I do not repine, for I am a subject of it only by force of arms.
H.L. MenckenTag: humor politics honesty hate united-states trust corruption common-sense force decency american politicians republic
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Politicians were mostly people who'd had too little morals and ethics to stay lawyers.
George R.R. MartinTag: lawyers politicians
Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.
Gore VidalTag: speeches politicians
Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature made them.
Bertrand RussellTag: politics democracy humour funny revolution communism dishonesty socialism politicians
Nothing so removes a man from his inner, mysterious, real life, nothing makes him so deaf and dumb as the picture of these petty passions and petty crimes which calls itself the world of politics.
Vladimir OdoyevskyTag: politics politicians
NEW RULE: 'Kidiots' Leave the children behind. At least until they learn something. A new study has shown that half of American high schools agree that newspapers should only be able to publish government-approved material. Almost one out of five said people should not be allowed to voice unpopular opinions..This is the first generation after September 11th, who discovered news during a 'watch what you say' administration...George W. Bush once asked, 'is our children learning.' No, they isn't. A better question would be, 'is our teacher's teaching?
Bill MaherTag: politicians
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