politicians

It is hard to write about politicians, see them at such close range, and still think of any of them as heroes.

The New Dealers, labor politicians and Socialists have tried to take advantage of the natural American instinct for charity to forward their plans to socialize the furnishing of the necessities of life to all. If the Government gives free medical care to everybody, why not free food, clothing and housing?

For years politicians have promised the moon. I'm the first one to be able to deliver it.

Politicians in government should be changed regularly, like diapers, for the same reason.

The antithesis of democracy is class dictatorship, whether by groups of bankers, investors, managers, politicians, lawyers or union members. Over a considerable part of the world the unspeakable doctrine is being preached that the ideal of a democratic State is a snare and a delusion. A politician if he denies the existence of the essentials of democracy and denies it in such a way as to create class feeling, is not working in the interest of democracy even though he protests to the high heavens that that is his objective.

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even when there is no river.

Self-reliance can turn a salesman into a merchant; a politician into a statesman; an attorney into a jurist; an unknown youth into a great leader. All are to be tomorrow's big leaders - those who in solitude sit above the clang and dust of time, with the world's secret trembling on their lips.

The reason there are so few female politicians is that it is too much trouble to put makeup on two faces.

Politicians are masters of the art of deception.

The political philosophy of black nationalism means that the black man should control the politics and the politicians in his own community; no more.