Famous quotes containing the words american and/or politician:
“The newspaper has debauched the American until he is a slavish, simpering, and angerless citizen; it has taught him to be a lump mass-man toward fraud, simony, murder, and lunacies more vile than those of Commodus or Caracalla.”
—Edward Dahlberg (19001977)
“A politician is a man who understands government and it takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician whos been dead ten or fifteen years.”
—Harry S. Truman (18841972)