Quotes about Weather Vane

French Proverb

Politicians are like weather vanes.

David R. Brower

Politicians are like weather vanes. Our job is to make the wind blow.

John Dingell

[Referring to George W. Bush:] He's got ideas on every subject and they all change with the weather.

David Dinkins

He's running for weather vane: he's got to see which way the wind is blowing to decide his position.]

Characterizing his mayoralty opponent Rudolph W. Giuliani:

J. Marshall Coleman

He's a walking weather vane.

Referring to his opponent, Doug Wilder's changed positions:

Heinrich Heine

The weather-cock on a church-spire, though made of iron, would soon be broken by the storm-wind if it did not understand the noble art of turning to every wind.

Robert Louis Stevenson

It blows a snowing gale in the winter of the year;
The boats are on the sea and the crews are on the pier.
The needle of the vane, it is veering to and fro,
A flash of sun is on the veering of the vane.
Autumn leaves and rain,
The passion of the gale.

Franklin P. Adams

I am easily influenced. Compared with me a weather vane is Gibraltar.

Weather Vane Quotes