A Quote by Jim Cooper

Any politician who's ever been re-elected knows that friends come and go; enemies accumulate.

Jim Cooper

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Jim Cooper
American - Politician
Born: June 19, 1954

Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Arthur Bloch

Friends may come and go, but barbecues accumulate.

Thomas Jones

No professional politician is ever actually in favor of public economy. It is his implacable enemy, and he knows it. All professional politicians are dedicated wholeheartedly to waste and corruption. They are the enemies of every decent man.

H. L. Mencken

Any politician who can be elected only by turning Americans against other Americans is too dangerous to be elected.

Thomas Sowell

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

Richard M. Nixon

More people have been ruined by their upright friends than ever have been by their enemies!

Leslie Ford

Liberty and democracy are eternal enemies, and every one knows it who has ever given any sober reflection to the matter.

H. L. Mencken

Hillary Clinton's negatives are higher than any Democrat who has ever been elected, ever run.

Rush Limbaugh

Many men are loved by their enemies, and hated by their friends, and are the friends of their enemies, and the enemies of their friends.

Plato

No politician has ever yet been able to rule his country, nor has any country ever yet been able to face the world, upon the principles of the Sermon on the Mount.

Frederick Scott Oliver

Always remember...the stronger your position in life, the more enemies you're gonna have .. while friends come and go.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

Very few established institutions, governments and constitutions ...are ever destroyed by their enemies until they have been corrupted and weakened by their friends.

Walter Lippmann

I'm elected. I don't report to any politician. I report to the people. If I had to report to any politician, I'd quit tomorrow. I'm not tall, dark and handsome. They don't vote for me because I look like a movie star. I can't get that vote. People keep voting for me because they like what I do.

Joe Arpaio

London chose to come out in record numbers, the highest turnout there's ever been in a mayoral election, and - I say this not with arrogance; it is what others have said - the single biggest mandate a British politician has ever received. That shows what a wonderful city we are.

Sadiq Khan

I'm not part of the friends-and-family club; I'm not part of the pay-to-play club; I'm not looking to get re-elected. I'm not looking to go to another office and fill my campaign coffers. I don't need any friends in Albany except the people of the state.