As a politician, you only meet two types of people. People with problems, and people who are right.
Gyles Brandreth
Category: Politicians (as a species)
The politician's prayer is: May my words be ever soft and low, for I may have to eat them.
Norman Lamont 2001
Category: Politicians (as a species)
Politicians come and go, but medicine goes on for ever.
Lord Horder
Category: Health Issues, Politicians (as a species)
A politician who enters public life may as well face the fact that the best way of not being found out is not to do anything which, if found out, will cause his ruin.
Lord Hailsham
Category: Politicians (as a species)
The proper memory for a politician is one that knows what to remember and what to forget.
John Morley
Category: Politicians (as a species)
A good party man puts his party above himself and his country above his party.
Winston Churchill
Category: What is a Political Party?, Politicians (as a species)
I've spent my life fighting the Germans and fighting the politicians. It is much easier to fight the Germans.
Field-Marshal Viscount Montgomery of Alamein
Category: Germany, Politicians (as a species)
If politicians lived on praise and thanks, they'd be forced into some other line of business.
Edward Heath
Category: Politicians (as a species)
Nothing is more dangerous that the politician who uses politics as a surrogate for an unsatisfactory personal life.
Denis Healey
Category: Politicians (as a species)
Politicians live in little worlds of their own and imagine they are the universe.
Michael Foot
Category: Politicians (as a species)
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 Truman 1962
Category: Politicians (as a species)
A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.
Adlai Stevenson
Category: Statesmen & Statesmanship, Politicians (as a species)
Politicians are interested in people. Not that this is always a virtue. Fleas are interested in dogs.
John O'Toole
Category: Politicians (as a species)
Many of our troubles are due to the fact that our people turn to politicians for everything.
Margaret Thatcher
Category: Politicians (as a species)
A little nonsense now and then is not a bad thing - where would we politicians be if we were not allowed to talk it sometimes.
Enoch Powell 1965
Category: Politicians (as a species)
Politicians are like nappys. They both need changing regularly and for the same reason.
Anonymous
Category: Politicians (as a species)
Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges, even where there are no rivers.
Nikita Khruschev
Category: Politicians (as a species)
Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't natural.
Bob Beckel 30/03/1995
On Term Limits
Category: Politicians (as a species), Power
