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Quotes about politicians and poli
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To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities -- that is not to be taken seriously in politics. (Coyote Peter)
It is hard to say why politicians are called servants, unless it is because a good one is hard to find. (Coyote Peter)
Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good. (Coyote Peter)
The ordinary politician has a very low estimate of human nature. In his daily life he comes into contact chiefly with persons who want to get something or to avoid something. Beyond this circle of seekers after privileges, individuals and organized minorities, he is aware of a large unorganized, indifferent mass of citizens who ask nothing in particular and rarely complain. The politician comes after a while to think that the art of politics is to satisfy the seekers after favors and to mollify the inchoate mass with noble sentiments and patriotic phrases. (Coyote Peter)
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Successful democratic politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle, or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies. The decisive consideration is not whether the proposition is good but whether it is popular -- not whether it will work well and prove itself but whether the active talking constituents like it immediately. Politicians rationalize this servitude by saying that in a democracy public men are the servants of the people. (Coyote Peter)
The chief element in the art of statesmanship under modern conditions is the ability to elucidate the confused and clamorous interests which converge upon the seat of government. It is an ability to penetrate from the nave self-interest of each group to its permanent and real interest. Statesmanship consists in giving the people not what they want but what they will learn to want. (Coyote Peter)
Many politicians lay it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim. (Coyote Peter)
As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound. (Coyote Peter)
The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision. (Coyote Peter)
The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare. (Coyote Peter)
Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong. (Coyote Peter)
The Tories in England had long imagined that they were enthusiastic about the monarchy, the church and beauties of the old English Constitution, until the day of danger wrung from them the confession that they are enthusiastic only about rent. (Coyote Peter)
The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society. (Coyote Peter)
In the domain of Political Economy, free scientific inquiry meets not merely the same enemies as in all other domains. The peculiar nature of the material it deals with, summons as foes into the field of battle the most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human breast, the Furies of private interest. (Coyote Peter)
As in private life one differentiates between what a man thinks and says of himself and what he really is and does, so in historical struggles one must still more distinguish the language and the imaginary aspirations of parties from their real organism and their real interests, their conception of themselves from their reality. (Coyote Peter)
It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public. (Coyote Peter)
A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and ten. It is at this age, when he would be too old to be a clerk or a gardener or a police-court magistrate, that he is ripe to govern a country. (Coyote Peter)
The two-party system has given this country the war of Lyndon Johnson, the Watergate of Nixon, and the incompetence of Carter. Saying we should keep the two-party system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life-rafts. (Coyote Peter)
It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember. (Coyote Peter)
In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons. (Coyote Peter)
In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons. (Coyote Peter)
Politics is the enemy of the imagination. (Coyote Peter)
Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be. (Coyote Peter)
Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a politician who has lost his job, save only a retired stud-horse. (Coyote Peter)
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed [and Hence Clamorous To Be Led To Safety] by an endless series of hobgoblins. (Coyote Peter)
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