Politicians

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.

If more politicians in this country were thinking about the next generation instead of the next election, it might be better for the United States and the world. (Claude Pepper, U.S. senator and representative, 1900-1989Arrogance: The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos. (Stephen Jay Gould, U.S. paleontologist, biologist, author, 1941-2002Journalists: You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty. (Jessica Mitford, English journalist and civil rights activist, 1917-1996Fishing: Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.

Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.

A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country.

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.

Nations are born in the hearts of poets, but they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

It seems like the less a statesman amounts to, the more he adores the flag.