Some Pearls about the Scum of Society

You all know what a high opinion I have of politicians. Well, it seems that I am not the only one. Great men think alike. Don't go any further.
Radheshyam

A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.
- Winston Churchill

Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.
- Will Rogers

Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.
- Richard Armour

Why are politics and a pond similar? Because the scum always floats to the top in both!
- Linda McDonald

Politicians are like diapers. They both need changing regularly and for the same reason.
- Anonymous

What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?
- Abraham Lincoln

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
- Plato

Priests are no more necessary to religion than politicians to patriotism.
- John Haynes

Men say I am a saint losing himself in politics. The fact is that I am a politician trying my hardest to become a saint.
- Mahatma Gandhi

Get thee glass eyes, And, like a scurvy politician, seem To see the things thou dost not.
- William Shakespeare

On both sides of a war, how many mothers must face the death of their sons because a politician will not face the death of one misguided opinion?
- Laura Teresa Marquez

Political language. . . is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
- George Orwell

Politics: Poli a Latin word meaning many; and "tics" meaning bloodsucking creatures.
- Robin Williams