Politicians Quotes for Whatsapp and Facebook Status
Oh Lord, grant that we may not despise our rulers; and grant, oh Lord, that they may not act so we can’t help it.
Lyman Beecher (1775-1863) American preacher
Though it be a foul lie; set it a good face.
Bishop John Bale (1495-1563) English ecclesiastic, dramatist
My choice early in life was either to be a piano-player in a whorehouse or politician. And to tell the truth there’s hardly any difference.
Harry S. Truman (1884-1972) American president
Little other than a red-tape talking machine, and unhappy bag of parliamentary eloquence.
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish author
A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity.
Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) English prime minister of Gladstone
The most successful politician is he who says what everybody is thinking most often and in the loudest voice.
Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) American president
Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
Mark Twain (1835-1910) American author
A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.
Adlai Stevenson (1900-1965) American Democratic politician
A statesman is a politician who is held upright by equal pressure from all directions.
Eric A. Johnston (1896-1963) American entrepreneur
A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman, of the next generation.
James Freeman Clarke (1810-1888) American theologian
A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.
Walter Bagehot (1826-1877) English economist, critic
D’ye think that statesmen’s kindnesses proceed from any principles but their own need?
Sir Robert Howard (1626-1698) English dramatist
A politician will do anything to keep his job—even become a patriot.
William Randolph Hearst (1863-1951) American newspaper magnate
The tragedy of one successful politician after another is the gradual substitution of narcissism for an interest in the community.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) British philosopher, mathematician
Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgement; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
Edmund Burke (1729-1797) Irish philosopher, statesman
We all know that Prime Ministers are wedded to the truth, but like other wedded couples they sometimes live apart.
Said (H. H. Munro) (1870-1916) Scottish author
Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) American president
To be out of place is not necessarily to be out of power.
Dr. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English author, lexicographer
He thinks like a Tory and talks like a Radical, and that’s so important now-a-days.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Irish author
He was a power politically for years, but he has never got prominent enough to have his speeches garbled.
Kin (F. McKinney) Hubbard (1868-1930) American humorist, journalist
His watchword is always Duty; and he never forgets that the nation which lets its duty get on the opposite side to its interest is lost
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Anglo-Irish playwright, critic
As I interpret the President, were now at the end of the beginning of the upturn of the downturn,
John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) American president when Senator
There are two problems in my life. The political ones are insoluble and the economic ones are incomprehensible.
Sir Alec Douglas-Home (b. 1930) British Conservative politician, prime minister
