politicians

Those who have been bred in the school of politics fail now and always to face the facts.

Trophy hunters are like politicians, they both like to pull the trigger from the comfort of a safe distance.

I think we do need a Constitutional amendment to take the profit out of politics by imposing term limits.

That demon will trick you faster than a politician with a liquor license.

Donald Trump is nuts, his party is chock full of nuts too, and that is bad news for Americans with a nut allergy.

With good morality first candidates you'll get bad candor, bad ethics, bad loyalty and bad morality - lastly bad odor will surface to save the day if you maintain good optimism like I do.

I wish I knew how to quit you, political jokers

In the Congress of the United States, Cromwell had known a good many men who were possessed of absolute certainty, and this he feared so much that he felt the only real and enduring evil on the face of the earth was unbending certainty, unshakable orthodoxy.

A politician, a man engaged in party contests, must be an opportunist. Let us give up saying that word as if it contained a slur. If you want to win in party action, I take it for granted that you want to lure the majority to your side. I never heard of any man in his senses who was fishing for a minority.

Politicians are crooks!

Let us hope that Lysenko's success in Russia will serve for many generations to come as another reminder to the world of how quickly and easily a science can be corrupted when ignorant political leaders deem themselves competent to arbitrate scientific disputes.

We need to expose the motives of our political leaders, point out their connections to corporate power, show how huge profits are being made out of death and suffering.

Politics is the only art whose artists regularly disown their masterpieces.

The special skill of the politician consists in knowing what passions can be most easily aroused, and how to prevent them, when aroused, from being harmful to himself and his associates...Moreover, since politicians are divided into rival groups, they aim at similarly dividing the nation, unless they have the good fortune to unite it in war against some other nation.

The Cuban Missile Crisis. It had to do with Cuba and missiles, I'm pretty sure.

He was half a politician, and like most of his kind he was an insecure man.

The politicians looked after the mandarins. The mandarins looked after the central bankers and the regulators. (The governor of the Central Bank was paid more in 2008 than the chairman of the US Federal Reserve, as was the chief executive of the Financial Regulator.) The Central Bankers looked after the bankers. The bankers looked after IBEC. And IBEC looked after the government. The circle of oligarchs was watertight.

Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.