Politician Quotes - Page 30

• The [Liberal] federal government's trouble is that they have a wishbone where they should have a backbone.

  Tommy Douglas

  Government, Should Have, Political

  95 Copy quote

• When a man has done me an evil turn once, I don't like to give him the opportunity to do so twice.

  John A. Macdonald

  Opportunity, Men, Evil

  24 Copy quote

• Politics: Poli a Latin word meaning many and tics meaning bloodsucking creatures.

  Robin Williams

  Funny, Latin, Humor

  178 Copy quote

• Nothing would please the Kremlin more than to have the people of this country choose a second rate president.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Country, People, Political

  91 Copy quote

• There will be no silence from Canada. Our friendship has no limit. Generation after generation we have traveled many difficult miles together side by side.

  Jean Chretien

  Silence, Political, Together

  26 Copy quote

• The more successful a political party, the more winning its ways, the less of its time is spent casting about for policy or determining it principles. But, political parties with principles or even without them, have a common need for money; someone has to pay for the television commercials.

  Dalton Camp

  Party, Successful, Winning

  4 Copy quote

• Experts are just trained dogs.

  Albert Einstein

  Dog, Political, Experts

  14 Copy quote

• Great obstacles make great leaders.

  Billy Diamond

  Leader, Political, Politics

  10 Copy quote

• If politicians lived on praise and thanks they'd be forced into some other line of business.

  Edward Heath

  Political, Lines, Politics

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• If I am a great man, then all great men are frauds.

  Bonar Law

  Men, Political, Politics

  In Lord Beaverbrook Politicians and the War (1932) vol. 2, ch. 4

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I am more or less happy when being praised, not very comfortable when being abused, but I have moments of uneasiness when being explained.

  Arthur Balfour

  Political, Politics, Moments

  4 Copy quote

• There seem to me to be very few facts, at least ascertainable facts, in politics.

  Robert Peel

  Political, Politics, Facts

  Sir Robert Peel, George Peel (Hon.), Charles Stuart Parker (1899). “Sir Robert Peel: From his private papers”

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it.

  William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham

  Government, Political, Mind

  William Pitt (1st earl of Chatham.) (1839). “Correspondence, ed. by [W.S. Taylor and J.H. Pringle] the executors of his son John, earl of Chatham”, p.387

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• Those of you who come in with me now will receive a big piece of the pie. Those of you who delay, and commit yourselves later, will receive a smaller piece of pie. Those of you who don't come in at all will receive - Good Government!

  Huey Long

  Government, Pie, Political

  60 Copy quote

• The best time to listen to a politician is when he's on a stump on a street corner in the rain late at night when he's exhausted. Then he doesn't lie.

  Theodore White

  Lying, Rain, Night

  1969 In the New York Times, 5 Jan.

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• Political work is the life-blood of all economic work.

  Mao Zedong

  Blood, Political, Politics

  Zedong Mao (1972). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung”, p.135, China Books

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• We often repent of what we have said, but never, never, of that which we have not.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Political, Politics, Said

  Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin”, p.333

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Becoming a politician is the only step down I could take from being a journalist.

  Jim Hightower

  Political, Politics, Becoming

  10 Copy quote

• Politics are, as it were, the market place and the price mechanism of all social demands - though there is no guarantee that a just price will be struck; and there is nothing spontaneous about politics- it depends on deliberate and continuous activity.

  Bernard Crick

  Guarantees That, Political, Demand

  Bernard Crick (1993). “In Defense of Politics”, p.23, University of Chicago Press

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• Many businesses with unpopular products or inefficient production find it much easier to curry the favor of a few influential politicians or a government agency than to compete in the open market.

  Charles Koch

  Business, Agency, Government

  5 Copy quote

• Office tends to confer a dreadful plausibility on even the most negligible of those who hold it.

  Mark Lawson

  Office, Political, Politics

  4 Copy quote

• In politics as on a sickbed men toss from side to side in hope of lying more comfortably.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Lying, Men, Political

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1963). “Goethe's world view: presented in his reflections and maxims”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The political process is not tied to any particular doctrine. Genuine political doctrines, rather, are the attempt to find particular and workable solutions to this perpetual and shifty problem of conciliation.

  Bernard Crick

  Political, Doctrine, Politics

  Bernard Crick (1954). “In defence of politics”, p.17, Bernard Crick

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• There is no more great men; there is only great committees.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Men, Political, Politics

  6 Copy quote

• Gratitude is not a normal feature of political life.

  David Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir

  Gratitude, Political, Politics

  6 Copy quote