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Quotes about politicians and poli
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When they call the roll in the Senate, the senators do not know whether to answer present or not guilty. (Coyote Peter)
The most successful politician is he who says what everybody is thinking most often and in the loudest voice. (Coyote Peter)
Politics in the United States consists of the struggle between those whose change has been arrested by success or failure, on one side, and those who are still engaged in changing themselves, on the other. Agitators of arrested metamorphosis versus agitators of continued metamorphosis. The former have the advantage of numbers (since most people accept themselves as successes or failures quite early), the latter of vitality and visibility (since self-transformation, though it begins from within, with ideology, religion, drugs, tends to express itself publicly through costume and jargon). (Coyote Peter)
We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens. (Coyote Peter)
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The lounge of the main hotel is full of jollity, with large comfortable men sitting in braces; the bar is packed with talkative intellectuals, full of witty disloyalties. The next week the main hotel is suddenly full of dinner-jackets and large hats. The girls are dressed as if for a weekend in the country. When one of the great men of the party comes through, the crowd edges respectfully away, murmuring loyal noises. (Coyote Peter)
The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends. (Coyote Peter)
Get thee glass eyes, and like a scurvy politician, seem to see the things thou dost not. (Coyote Peter)
A politician is one that would circumvent God. (Coyote Peter)
There have been many great men that have flattered the people who never loved them. (Coyote Peter)
He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career. (Coyote Peter)
If I was forced to choose between the penitentiary and White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you. (Coyote Peter)
I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live. (Coyote Peter)
A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth. (Coyote Peter)
Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse. (Coyote Peter)
Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary. (Coyote Peter)
In the school of political projectors, I was but ill entertained, the professors appearing, in my judgment, wholly out of their senses; which is a scene that never fails to make me melancholy. These unhappy people were proposing schemes for persuading monarchs to choose favorites upon the score of their wisdom, capacity, and virtue; of teaching ministers to consult the public good; of rewarding merit, great abilities, and eminent services, of instructing princes to know their true interest, by placing it on the same foundation with that of their people; of choosing for employment persons qualified to exercise them; with many other wild impossible chimeras, that never entered before into the heart of man to conceive; and confirmed in me the old observation, that there is nothing so extravagant and irrational which some philosophers have not maintained for truth. (Coyote Peter)
The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance and never to keep his work. (Coyote Peter)
Politics, when I am in it, it makes me sick. (Coyote Peter)
I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph. (Coyote Peter)
Politics is the gizzard of society, full of gut and gravel. (Coyote Peter)
In politics... shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships. (Coyote Peter)
Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working Americans. It is the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them. (Coyote Peter)
You are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on -- into the dustbin of history! (Coyote Peter)
The essential ingredient in politics is timing. (Coyote Peter)
Within the first few months I discovered that being president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep riding or be swallowed. (Coyote Peter)
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