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- Under every stone lurks a politician.
- Aristophanes (450 BC - 388 BC), Thesmophoriazusae, 410 B.C.
- You have all the characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
- Aristophanes (450 BC - 388 BC), Knights, 424 B.C.
- Now I know what a statesman is; he's a dead politician. We need more statesmen.
- Bob Edwards
- I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
- Charles De Gaulle (1890 - 1970)
- Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
- Charles De Gaulle (1890 - 1970)
- Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians.
- Chester Bowles (1901 - 1986)
- Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
- Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001), The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- Get all the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything.
- Frank Dane
- Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
- Henry Kissinger (1923 - )
- If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.
- Jay Leno (1950 - )
- The reason there are so few female politicians is that it is too much trouble to put makeup on two faces.
- Maureen Murphy
- Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.
- Nikita Khrushchev (1894 - 1971)
- I once said cynically of a politician, 'He'll doublecross that bridge when he comes to it.'
- Oscar Levant (1906 - 1972)
- An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
- Simon Cameron (1799 - 1889)
- You've got to vote for someone. It's a shame, but it's got to be done.
- Whoopi Goldberg
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