- 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
- An honest man in politics shines more there than he would elsewhere – Mark Twain
- Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word – Charles De Gaulle
- When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators – PJ O’Rourke
- Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president but they don’t want them to become politicians in the process – John Fitzgerald Kennedy