A Quote by Barry Goldwater

When I'm not a politician, I'll be dead.

Barry Goldwater

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Dead Politician

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Barry Goldwater
American - Politician
January 2, 1909 - May 29, 1998

A politician is a man who understands government, and it takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead 10 or 15 years.

Harry S. Truman

A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for 15 years.

Harry S Truman

It's not something that defines me. I'm not a half-Indian politician or a doctor politician or a gay politician for that matter... it is part of my character, I suppose.

Leo Varadkar

A politician weakly and amiably in the right is no match for a politician tenaciously and pugnaciously in the wrong. You cannot, by tying an opinion, to a man's tongue, make him the representative of that opinion; and at the close of any battle for principles, his name will be found neither among the dead nor among the wounded, but among the missing.

Edwin Percy Whipple

You know, a statesman is a dead politician.

Arlen Specter

A statesman is a successful politician who is dead.

Thomas Reed

Now I know what a statesman is; he's a dead politician. We need more statesmen.

Bob Edwards

It turns out that there is nothing so 'ex' as an ex-politician, especially a defeated one. Your phone goes dead.

Michael Ignatieff

The other feature is a gymnasium named after another dead politician who was gifted with fast and extremely sure hands.

Jimmy Breslin

The auditorium, named after a dead Queens politician is windowless in honor of the secrecy in which he lived and, probably, the bank vaults he frequented.

Jimmy Breslin

Donald Trump is succeeding right now for sure. He is a gifted politician. But, he is just a gifted politician. He`s just a gifted politician that is appealing to people`s anger and frustration that is quite legitimate.

Jeb Bush

A politician thinks of the next election; a statement of the next generation. A politician looks for the success of his party; a statesman for that of his country. The statesman wishes to steer, while the politician is satisfied to drift.

James Freeman Clarke

Being an ex-England manager, one that failed to qualify for the World Cup, is like being a dead politician.

Graham Taylor

Hillary Clinton has made a lot of dough out of being a politician. I gave up dough to be a politician. I'm sure that Ronald Reagan gave up dough to be a politician.