The very name of a politician, a statesman, is sure to cause terror and hatred; it has always connected with it the ideas of treachery, cruelty, fraud, and tyranny…
History has tried hard to teach us that we can't have good government under politicians.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910
Never trust a politician, Todd. They have no fixed center, so you can never believe them.
My deepest feeling about politicians is that they are dangerous lunatics to be avoided when possible and carefully humored; people, above all, to whom one must never tell the truth.
I don't like politicians, and I don't like politics. I definitely don't want to be associated with any of them.
He couldn't tell the difference between one politician and another. They were all formlessly enthusiastic chimpanzees to him.
Politics for me is when I feel a personal engagement between people: I don't trust politicians.
I've never been disappointed by politicians. I've never invested that much in them in the first place.
Politicians are so... detested; they don't actually walk amongst people now.
I've not seen in my lifetime any politician who is a heroic figure. The manipulation that all politicians use on one level or another is so transparent.
Canadians know that our difficulties will not be resolved overnight. They are tired of politicians who pretend they will be.
There's no pleasing the British, or winning their favor. They simply hate politicians. All politicians. Hatred goes with politicians like mint sauce with lamb. It's as old as Parliaments.
If people want a sense of purpose they should get it from their archbishop. They should certainly not get it from their politicians.
