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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.
John Major
A gaffe is when a politician tells the truth.
Michael Kinsley
A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.
H. L. Mencken
A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.
Adlai E. Stevenson
A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country.
Texas Guinan
A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for 15 years.
Harry S. Truman
A politician is a man who will double cross that bridge when he comes to it.
Oscar Levant
A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman.
David Lloyd George
A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.
Adlai E. Stevenson
A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.
H. L. Mencken
A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.
e. e. cummings
A politician is the devil's quilted anvil; He fashions all sins on him, and the blows are never heard.
John Webster
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.
Winston Churchill
A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.
Hubert H. Humphrey
A politician ought to be born a foundling and remain a bachelor.
Claudia Johnson
A politician should have three hats. One for throwing into the ring, one for talking through, and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected.
Carl Sandburg
A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.
James Freeman Clarke
A politician will do anything to keep his job - even become a patriot.
William Randolph
A politician will do anything to keep his job, even become a patriot.
William Randolph Hearst
A politician wouldn't dream of being allowed to call a columnist the things a columnist is allowed to call a politician.
Max Lerner
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