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Within the first few months I discovered that being president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep riding or be swallowed.
Harry S Truman
I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.
How far would Moses have gone if he had taken a poll in Egypt?
It takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for fifteen years.
A camel is a horse designed by committee.
Sir Alec Issigonis, The Guardian
Je veux que les paysans mettent la poule au pot tous les dimanches.Fr., I want there to be no peasant in my realm so poor that he will not have a chicken in his pot every Sunday.
King Henry IV of France
If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.
Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman, O
It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.
Francis Bacon
I think to be in politics you have to have the taste for blood on that.
Moira Kelly
Definition of Politics: Poli in latin meaning many and tics meaning blood-sucking parasites.
Anon.
If you do not regard feminism with an uplifting sense of the gloriousness of woman's industrial destiny, or in the way, in short, that it is prescribed, by the rules of the political publicist, that you should, that will be interpreted by your opponents as an attack on woman.
Percy Wynham Lewis
I look for the humanity in people, however big the politics or oppressive the situation may be, whether it's subsumed within a human being or between two human beings. I want to help us hold a mirror to ourselves.
Mira Nair
So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we'll be called a democracy.
Roger Nash Baldwin
Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.
Thomas Jefferson
Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.
Ronald Reagan
A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer -- that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a knave nor an honest man, but is a sort of whiffing, shuffling, cunning, silly, contemptible, unmeaning negation of the two.
William Hazlitt
Well, I think any time you delve into this sort of religion, politics, as you well know, you're going to, you know, touch a few nerves. I wasn't - now - and this is the honest truth.
Mel Gibson
A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.
Sir Winston Churchill
We say that someone occupies an official position, whereas it is the official position that occupies him.
G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb
This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.
Harold Wilson
