A Quote by Mark Twain

An honest politician is an oxymoron.

Mark Twain

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Honest Oxymoron Politician

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Mark Twain
American - Writer
November 30, 1835 - April 21, 1910

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

I'm a very honest politician.

Jacob Zuma

He's an honest politician--he stays bought.

Robert A. Heinlein

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

An honest politician is either a hypocrite - or he is doomed.

Taylor Caldwell

The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I would be honest.

Rodney Dangerfield

A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.

H. L. Mencken

I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.

Socrates

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

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

We like people who are honest. Honest in argument, honest with clients, honest with suppliers, honest with the company - and above all, honest with consumers.

David Ogilvy

It is hard for any one to be an honest politician who is not born and bred a Dissenter.

William Hazlitt

There are two impossibilities in life: "just one drink" and "an honest politician."

H. L. Mencken

I get no respect. The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I would be honest.

Rodney Dangerfield

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.