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| I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live. | | Socrates | |
| I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians | | John Fitzgerald Kennedy | |
| If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be | | Evelyn Waugh | |
| In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant. | | Charles de Gaulle | |
| Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks. | | Doug Larson | |
| It has been the political career of this man to begin with hypocrisy, proceed with arrogance, and finish with contempt | | Thomas Paine | |
| It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians. | | Henrik Ibsen | |
| Men say I am a saint losing himself in politics. The fact is that I am a politician trying my hardest to become a saint. | | Mahatma Gandhi | |
| Most political leaders acquire their position by causing large numbers of people to believe that these leaders are actuated by altruistic desires | | Bertrand Russell | |
| Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be President, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process. | | John Fitzgerald Kennedy | |
| My choice early in life was either to be a piano-player in a whorehouse or a politician. And to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference. | | Harry S Truman | |
| Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them. | | Lily Tomlin | |
| Ninety percent of all politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation. | | Henry Kissinger | |
| Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation. | | Henry Kissinger | |
| No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections. | | Winston Churchill | |
| Political language. . . is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. | | George Orwell | |
| Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. | | Aristotle | |
| Politicians are a set of men who have interests aside from the interests of the people and who, to say the most of them, are, taken as a mass, at least one long step removed from honest men | | Abraham Lincoln | |
| Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers. | | Nikita Khrushchev | |
| Politicians can do more funny things naturally than I can think of to do purposely | | Will Rogers | |
