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It is an axiom enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically. —Connolly,James

At home, you always have to be a politician.When you are abroad, you almost feel yourself to be a statesman. —Stockton

The silver-haired, pipe-smoking northerner was a consummate British politician: tenacious, shrewd, manipulative, a blend of homespun tastes, acid wit and pragmatic, often shifting policies†the symbol of an emerging middle-class Briton. McGonagall —McFadden, Robert D(ennis)

[Jeremy] Bentham held no post at the mercy of bankers and tripe sellers; he was a man of independent means, a lawyer and politician and a heretic in general practice. It is impossible to imagine such a man occupying a chair at Harvard or Princeton.Hehad a hand intoomany pies; he was too rebellious and contumacious; he had too little respect for authority, either academic or worldly. Moreover, his mind was too wide for a professor; he Mencken could never remain safely in a groove; the whole field of social organization invited his inquiries and experiments. —Mencken, H(enry) L(ouis)

I feel truer to myself†more of a missionary than a politician. —Carter,Jimmy (James Earl)

One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician; ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an ideaöwhether a good one or a bad one. —Miller, Henry Valentine

No mancanbe a politicianexcept hefirst be anhistorian or a traveller; for except he can see what must be, or what may be, he is no politician. —Harrington,James

A politician is a man who understandsgovernment, and ittakes a politiciantoruna Government. A statesman isa politician who has been dead10 or15 years. —Truman, Harry S

a politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man —cummings, e e pen name of  Edward Estlin Cummings

   A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him, he is a statesman. —Lloyd George (of Dwyfor), David, 1st Earl

A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth. —Stevenson, Adlai E(wing)

   A politician is the devil's quilted anvil, He fashions all sins on him, and the blows Are never heard. —Webster,John

The politician is trained in the art of inexactitude. His words tend to be blunt or rounded, because if they have a cutting edge they may later return to wound him. —Murrow, Edward (Edgar) R(oscoe)

The best time to listen to a politician is when he is on a street corner, in the rain, late at night, when he's exhausted. Then he doesn't lie. —White,Theodore H(arold)

In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant. —de Gaulle, Charles

For a politician rises on the backs of his friends (that's probably all they're good for), but it's through his enemies he'll have to govern afterwards. —Hughes, Richard Arthur Warren

   President Reagan is a rhetorical roundheels, as befits a politician seeking empathy with his audience. —Safire,William

I should prefer to have a politicianwho regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher. —Wilson, A(ndrew) N(orman)

He is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree and then mount the stump to make a speech for conservation. —Stevenson, Adlai E(wing)

did you ever notice that when a politician doesget an idea he usually gets it all wrong. —Marquis, Don(ald Robert Perry)