An honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought. — W. J. Cameron
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought. — Simon Cameron
A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar. — H. L. Mencken
An Honest politician will not be tolerated by a democracy unless he is very stupid ... because only a very stupid man can honestly share the prejudices of more than half the nation. — Bertrand Russell
You show me a politician with his heels ten feet in the air, and by Judas priest, Ill show you an honest politician. — Dalton Trumbo
The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy. — Robert E. Lee
The public want honesty from their politicians. Not showy gimmicks. — Theresa May
An honest public servant can't become rich in politics. He can only attain greatness and satisfaction by service. — Harry S. Truman
There may be honor among thieves, but there's none in politicians. — Peter O'Toole
The trite saying that honesty is the best policy has met with the just criticism that honesty is not policy. The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy. — Robert E. Lee
I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live. — Socrates
A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country. — Texas Guinan
Any politician or campaigner trying to pull the wool over the eyes of the public won't get very far. — Nicola Sturgeon
Shrewdness in public life all over the world is always honored, while honesty in public men is generally attributed to dumbness and is seldom rewarded. — Will Rogers
Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it. — Mark Twain
Short Honest Politician Quotes
A politician will do anything to keep his job - even become a patriot. — William Randolph
Women in politics are more honest and forthright. We are not in it for the ego gratification. — Hanan Ashrawi
A honest man is seldom a vagrant. — Cato the Younger
Honesty is something you can't wear out. — Waylon Jennings
A dishonest man you can always trust to be dishonest. — Johnny Depp
Being a politician is a poor profession. Being a public servant is a noble one. — Herbert Hoover
A few honest men are better than numbers. — Oliver Cromwell
I shall be a good politician. Even if it kills me. Or if it kills anyone else, for that matter. — Mark Antony
Honest Politician Image Quotes
Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it'll always get you the right ones.
Honest Government Quotes
The test of a government is not how popular it is with the powerful and privileged few but how honestly and fairly it deals with the many who must depend on it. — Jimmy Carter
The electorate is starved for honest debate and for the good governance that follows from it. — Bret Weinstein
Republicans should simply focus on first principles and give the American people what they want - an honest party dedicated to common sense, fiscal responsibility and limited government. If we govern to save the country, we'll do well as a party. — Tom Coburn
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
Honest and earnest criticism from those whose interests are most nearly touched,- criticism of writers by readers, of government by those governed, of leaders by those led, - this is the soul of democracy and the safeguard of modern society — W. E. B. Du Bois
Let's be honest about this; the liberal agenda with failed stimulus plans and government entitlement programs is crippling our economy and our quality of life. — Alveda King
Morality in government begins with officials using words as honestly as possible to describe the truth. — David Gergen
Being honest may not get you many friends, but it'll always get you the right ones.
The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest. — Thomas Jefferson
Instead of confronting its real and difficult problems and grappling honestly with a dark past, Hungary embraced a reactionary government and a self-pitying image of itself as the victimized nation, and went looking for scapegoats in the Roma, Jews, and, most recently, Syrian migrants. — Susan Faludi
As our boys and men are all expecting to be Presidents, so our girls and women must all hold themselves in readiness to preside inthe White House; and in no city in the world can honest industry be more at a discount than in this capital of the government of the people. — Jane Swisshelm
I want to assure you that working in transition period is an ungrateful job for any honest government. — Robert Kocharian
Honest Man Quotes
Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly. — Albert Einstein
Young man: Be honest; train yourself for useful work; love God. — Milton S. Hershey
The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man. — Napoleon Bonaparte
I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man. — George Washington
The holy spirit means the invisible power of Jehovah, holy because he is holy. This power of Jehovah operated upon the minds of honest men who loved and who were devoted to righteousness, directing them in the writing of the Bible. — Joseph Franklin Rutherford
I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person.
people who pay greater respect to a wealthy villain than to an honest, upright man in poverty, almost deserve to be enslaved; they plainly show that wealth, however it may be acquired, is, in their esteem, to be preferred to virtue. — John Hancock
A man who loves you the most is the man who tells you the most truth about yourself. — Robert Murray M'Cheyne
All bulls*** aside now it's time to be honest, I fear no man for death is all that's promised. — 50 Cent
When politicians start talking about large groups of their fellow Americans as 'enemies,' it's time for a quiet stir of alertness. Polarizing people is a good way to win an election, and also a good way to wreck a country. — Molly Ivins
Some politician some years ago said that bad officials are elected by good voters who do not vote. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
It's not enough for an official to be good. There has to be a system that forces them to be good. — Jesse Robredo
Dare to be honest and fear no labor.
I had a good mind to discontinue permanently the supply of grain to the city, reliance on which had discouraged Italian agriculture, but refrained because some politician would be bound one day to revive the dole as a means of ingratiating himself with the people. — Augustus
People expect Byzantine, Machiavellian logic from politicians. But the truth is simple. Trial lawyers learn a good rule: 'Don't decide what you don't have to decide.' That's not evasion, it's wisdom. — Mario Cuomo
I want you to take a good, hard look at me, America, because this is exactly what you’ve got coming. — Ted Cruz
To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest
Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote. — William E. Simon
When politicians offer you something for nothing, or something that sounds too good to be true, it's always worth taking a careful second look. — Malcolm Turnbull
Everything we know about human nature and about government tells us that individuals using their own money will achieve far more good for themselves and far more for others than politicians spending money they didn't have to work to earn. — Harry Browne
People are so docile right now. It is almost as if good government means when the politicians lie to us for our own good, for the public good, and bad government is when politicians lie for their own selfish interests. — James Bovard
Gun control advocates need to realize that passing laws that honest gun owners will not obey is a self-defeating strategy. Gun owners are not about to surrender their rights, and only the most foolish of politicians would risk the stability of the government by trying to use the force of the state to disarm the people. — J. Neil Schulman
An actor knows two important things - to be honest in what he is doing and to be in touch with the audience. That's not bad advice for a politician either. — Ronald Reagan
You can't fool all of the people all of the time. But it isn't necessary. — Will Rogers
Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature has made them. — Bertrand Russell
Indians mock their corrupt politicians relentlessly, but they regard their honest politicians with silent suspicion. The first thing they do when they hear of a supposedly 'clean' politician is to grin. It is a cliche that honest politicians in India tend to have dishonest sons, who collect money from people seeking an audience with Dad. — Aravind Adiga
If experience teaches us anything at all, it teaches us this: that a good politician, under democracy, is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar. — H. L. Mencken
All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field. — Albert Einstein
I believe that almost all politicians are honest. For every bribed alderman there are hundreds of politicians, low paid or not paid at all, doing their level best without thanks or glory to make our system work. If this were not true, we would never have gotten past the thirteen colonies. — Robert A. Heinlein
This imputation of inconsistency is one to which every sound politician and every honest thinker must sooner or later subject himself. The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion. — James Russell Lowell
An honest politician is an oxymoron. — Mark Twain
The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I would be honest. — Rodney Dangerfield
To be honest, I find most politicians very untrustworthy. When I listen to them talking - or rather, lying - I just feel there are very few politicians with integrity, so I never know who to bat for. — Jamie Sives
It is hard for any one to be an honest politician who is not born and bred a Dissenter. — William Hazlitt
One of my rules is I generally don't talk to elected officials. It's kind of a firewall. I'll talk to staff if they have something of interest. I try to avoid talking to politicians altogether. I mean, to be honest, I don't really find them that interesting. If I want juicy information I talk to staff of the politicians. — Markos Moulitsas
The honest man might observe... that no one gets something for nothing; that politicians go in poor and go out rich; that the Government screws up everything it touches; and that the Will to Believe is best confined to the Religious Venue, as to practice it elsewhere is just too damned expensive. — David Mamet
Be honest. Be honest with yourself, be honest with, you know, your fellow politicians. This is a rare quality of politicians. — Ma Ying-jeou
There are two types of politicians: the ones that are courageous and honest, and the ones that have a steep career. — Gerhard Kocher
At one time or another, almost every politician needs an honest man so badly that, like a ravenous wolf, he breaks into a sheep-fold: not to devour the ram he has stolen, however, but rather to conceal himself behind its wooly back. — Friedrich Nietzsche
What is any political campaign save a concerted effort to turn out a set of politicians who are admittedly bad and put in a set who are thought to be better. The former assumption, I believe is always sound; the latter is just as certainly false. For if experience teaches us anything at all it teaches us this: that a good politician, under democracy, is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar. — H. L. Mencken
All my life I've dealt with politicians. I know politicians better than anybody. And honestly, if you can't deal with a politician, there's something wrong with you. — Donald Trump
And just think, fellow Southrons, what kind of a Confederate nation we could have, if after independence, politicians abandoned equivocation and spoke honestly and firmly on all issues? If they were to do their duty to God, nation, and people, there would be virtually no need for any form of federal litigation. — Charley Reese
He's an honest politician--he stays bought. — Robert A. Heinlein
Talk about the flag or drugs or crime (never about race or class or justice) and follow the yellow brick road to the wonderful land of consensus. In place of honest argument among consenting adults the politicians substitute a lullaby for frightened children: the pretense that conflict doesn't really exist, that we have achieved the blessed state in which we no longer need politics. — Lewis H. Lapham
I campaigned for [Dennis] Kucinich in 2008. I continue to be in touch with him and I really admire him. I think he's very brave and honest - unusually so for a U.S. politician. — Viggo Mortensen
He was a superb military officer but he was also an extraordinarily gifted politician. That he was an unusually open, honest and no-nonsense politician did not make him unsuited for the profession, only uncommon. In uniform and in politics Barry's purpose was always the defense of freedom. And nobody before or since managed the task more ably or more colorfully than Barry Goldwater. — John McCain
Like other magicians, Obama has chosen his distractions well. The insurance industry is currently his favorite distraction as scapegoats, after he has tried to demonize doctors without much success . . . . Obama even gets away with saying things like having a system to 'keep insurance companies honest' - and many people may not see the painful irony in politicians trying to keep other people honest. — Thomas Sowell
There is more to American politics than fat cats and their political friends. There are serious-minded liberals who fight the good fight on many issues, ecologically oriented politicians who remain true to their cause, and honest people of every political stripe who are not beholden to any wealthy people. But there are not enough of them, and they are often worn down by the constant pressure from lobbyists, lawyers and conventional politicians. — G. William Domhoff
I don't like it, to be honest, when politicians make a big thing of their religious beliefs, so I don't make a big thing of it. — Tony Blair
An honest politician has no goodies to toss around. This limits his effectiveness profoundly, because political power in India is dispersed throughout a multi-tiered federal structure; a local official who has not been paid off can sometimes stop a billion-dollar project. — Aravind Adiga
An honest politician is either a hypocrite - or he is doomed. — Taylor Caldwell
Politicians are a set of men who have interests aside from the interests of the people and who, to say the most of them, are, taken as a mass, at least one long step removed from honest men — Abraham Lincoln
Whatever flaws or personal failings afflict them, it remains the case that the overwhelming majority of priests and politicians are honourable and honest - seeking to live out their beliefs and serve society. — Keith O'Brien
If we meet an honest and intelligent politician, a dozen, a hundred, we say they aren't like politicians at all, and our category of politicians stays unchanged; we know what politicians are like. — Randall Jarrell
Looking for an honest politician is like looking for an ethical burglar. — H. L. Mencken
We must remind our politicians that we expect them to speak honestly and to be concerned about real issues, and not simply with the obtaining or retaining of power. — Davis McCaughey
There are two impossibilities in life: "just one drink" and "an honest politician." — H. L. Mencken
It's not that I'm not interested in politics, but rather, I think that the people who become politicians in Japan are not very dynamic. Honestly, I find business much more interesting than politics. — Takafumi Horie
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