Arlen Specter Quotes

A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for 15 years.

A statesman is a successful politician who is dead.

I never intended to be a politician or office-seeker.

My mother was a politician in my formative years.

A statesman is a politician who’s been dead ten or fifteen years.

You don’t become a statesman unless you are first a good politician.

I say this in the utmost affection ... he has passed from rising hope to elder statesman without any intervening period whatsoever.

I love politics, but I wouldn't want to be involved in it. Too little money, too much work! I don't really have the personality for that.

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.

I'm not serving in office because I desperately needed 99 new friends in the U.S. Senate.

He's passed from rising hope to elder statesman without any intervening period whatsoever.

Whoever decides to dedicate their life to politics knows that earning money isn't the top priority.

A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.

When I'm not a politician, I'll be dead.

A bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office that a Republican wants.

There is absolutely no way that I would enter that world. I would never run for office.

A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him, he is a statesman.

The unexpressed aim of every politician is to influence events that history books will record his name - and spell it right.

A man’s got to walk if he is going to be in politics.

I don't want to be known as a politician.

When I was a young man, I used to dream maybe someday I could be an alderman. Instead of that I became an attorney general, a senator, a vice president, a Democratic nominee.

Seldom has a politician left public office with more self-generated fanfare than Sen. William S. Cohen.

Politics is far more complex and difficult than other professions, as it involves takeover of your own personal life.

I'm a man with a great political future behind me.

Senator Richard Lugar is a towering figure in Hoosier history and one of the greatest statesmen ever to serve in the U.S. Senate.