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Politician Quotes - Page 3

In the very end, civilizations perish because they listen to their politicians and not to their poets.

Jonas Mekas (2016). “Movie Journal: The Rise of New American Cinema, 1959-1971”, p.70, Columbia University Press

A politician knows that his friends are not always his allies, and that his adversaries are not always his enemies.

Nixon, Richard M. (1971). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1969”, p.716, Best Books on

To ask a politician to lead us is to ask the tail of a dog to lead the dog.

"The Designers and the Politicians" by R. Buckminster Fuller, 1962.

Here richly, with ridiculous display, The Politician's corpse was laid away. While all of his acquaintance sneered and slanged I wept: for I had longed to see him hanged.

Hilaire Belloc (1970). “Complete verse [of] H. Belloc: including Sonnets and verse, Cautionary verses, The modern traveller, etc”

Hookers have to deliver on their promise... unlike politicians.

"Legends/ Marty Feldman: Six Degrees of Separation". Documentary, Music, BBC Wales, March 2008.