Honest Politician Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. We need an honest politician in charge who doesn't care whether they are re-elected and is prepared to make the unpopular decisions.

Peter Hargreaves

#4. The idea of a vegetarian butcher is absurd; but there is something more absurd than this: The idea of an honest politician!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#5. 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

#6. Looking for an honest politician is like looking for an ethical burglar.

H.L. Mencken

#7. An honest politician is one that stays bought.

Robert A. Heinlein

#8. An honest politician is one who, when bought, will stay bought.

Simon Cameron PA

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

H.L. Mencken

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

Taylor Caldwell

#11. An honest politician is an oxymoron.

Mark Twain

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

Robert A. Heinlein

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

William Hazlitt

#14. As a nation the people of this lovely island called Britain, are at the point where even one honest politician could give us a collective and conceptual nervous breakdown.

Steve Merrick

#15. I wouldn't mind politicians lying to me, stealing from me, or senselessly making life difficult if they didn't try to claim they were looking out for my best interest. How refreshing it'd be to see a politician honest enough to admit he's dishonest.

Jarod Kintz

#16. 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

#17. You have to keep a strong sense of who you really are - and I have a pretty strong sense of myself. It gets me in trouble when I say this, but I don't think of myself as a politician. I've always tried to be honest when communicating with people.

Rudy Giuliani

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

H.L. Mencken

#19. 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

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

Rodney Dangerfield

#21. The Philippines is a country in which a man of morals can't be president, in which a politician who hasn't been linked to any wrongdoing isn't assumed to be honest, but merely better at hiding his corruption.

Raymond Bonner

#22. Unfortunately in today's world a liar seems to be more reliable than a truthful honest man.

Munia Khan

#23. Women in politics are more honest and forthright. We are not in it for the ego gratification.

Hanan Ashrawi

#24. 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

#25. This idea that you can't be an honest man and a Washington politician is a myth, a crock made up by sellouts and careerist hacks who don't stand for anything and are impatient with people who do. It's possible to do this job with honor and dignity.

Matt Taibbi

#26. 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

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

Socrates