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Quotes about politicians and poli
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One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions. (Coyote Peter)
Now and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature. (Coyote Peter)
Politics makes strange postmasters. (Coyote Peter)
I do not look for much to come out of government ownership as long as we have Democrats and Republicans. (Coyote Peter)
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If there is anything a public servant hates to do it is something for the public. (Coyote Peter)
The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future. (Coyote Peter)
Never answer a question from a farmer. (Coyote Peter)
A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office. (Coyote Peter)
Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power. (Coyote Peter)
Cant is always rather nauseating; but before we condemn political hypocrisy, let us remember that it is the tribute paid by men of leather to men of God, and that the acting of the part of someone better than oneself may actually commit one to a course of behavior perceptibly less evil than what would be normal and natural in an avowed cynic. (Coyote Peter)
There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics -- none in which there is more need of good pilots and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high. (Coyote Peter)
My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised. (Coyote Peter)
When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property. (Coyote Peter)
Politics are such a torment that I would advise every one I love not to mix with them. (Coyote Peter)
Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world. With this sole view do men engage in politics, and their whole conduct proceeds upon it. (Coyote Peter)
It is the eternal truth in the political as well as the mystical body, that, where one members suffers, all the members suffer with it. (Coyote Peter)
A political convention is not a place where you can come away with any trace of faith in human nature. (Coyote Peter)
Most of us are conditioned for many years to have a political viewpoint -- Republican or Democratic, liberal, conservative, or moderate. The fact of the matter is that most of the problems that we now face are technical problems, are administrative problems. They are very sophisticated judgments, which do not lend themselves to the great sort of passionate movements which have stirred this country so often in the past. [They] deal with questions which are now beyond the comprehension of most men. (Coyote Peter)
Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build A bridge even where there is no river. (Coyote Peter)
Ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation. (Coyote Peter)
Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means. (Coyote Peter)
A politician would do well to remember that he has to live with his conscience longer than he does with his constituents. (Coyote Peter)
In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always. (Coyote Peter)
What this country needs is more unemployed politicians. (Coyote Peter)
He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party man. (Coyote Peter)
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