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A politician is someone who knows everything about running a campaign and nothing about running a country.

politicians, politics

One cannot enter a State legislature or a prison for felons without becoming, in some measure, a dubious character.

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Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais

Only one thing to it: a strong stomach. The guts to gladhand a man you’re going to stab in the back; pledge allegiance to principles you stomp on every day; righteously denounce some despot in the press and sell him arms under the table. The talent to whip up the voters’ worst passions while you seem to call on their highest instincts, and the sense to stay wrapped in the flag. That’s politics: I’ll take the simple life.

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Vladimir Odoyevsky

Nothing so removes a man from his inner, mysterious, real life, nothing makes him so deaf and dumb as the picture of these petty passions and petty crimes which calls itself the world of politics.

politicians, politics

He was a consummate politician– which is to say he was given to expedient speech and lacked even a vestigial spine.

politicians, politics