Mayor

About Mayor

Notable quotes

“It was weird seeing Ricky act so weaselly and calculating, like he’d become a politician all of a sudden.”
— Charlie Jane Anders, Break! Break! Break! (2014), reprinted in Rich Horton (ed.), The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2015 (p. 226)
“Actors didn’t have to be politicians, but politicians had to be actors.”
— Philip José Farmer, The Fabulous Riverboat (1971), Chapter 20
“The politicians pontificate and manoeuvre with eloquent manifestos and pronouncements saying little about the challenges we must confront.”
— Joni Madraiwiwi Our Country at the Crossroads - 2001 Parkinson Memorial Lecture Series, 15 August 2001
“I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.”
— Attributed to Socrates, but reported in Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations (1989) as unverified in his writings or in interpretive writings about him. Possibly this is an interpretation of a passage from Plato, The Trial and Death of Socrates (The Apology), trans. F. J. Church, p. 61 (1880, reprinted 1972): "I do not venture to come forward in the assembly, and take part in public councils…. For, Athenians, it is quite certain that if I had attempted to take part in politics, I should have perished at once and long ago, without doing any good either to you or to myself. And do not be vexed with me for telling the truth".
“POLITICIAN, n. An eel in the fundamental mud upon which the superstructure of organized society is reared. When he wriggles he mistakes the agitation of his tail for the trembling of the edifice. As compared with the statesman, he suffers the disadvantage of being alive.”
— Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary (1948), p. 259. Originally published in 1906 as The Cynic's Word Book.
“I'd rather keep my promises to other politicians than to God. God, at least, has a degree of forgiveness.”
— Author unknown; reported in The Washington Post (June 9, 1978), p. C1, quoting a "veteran Virginia Democrat".

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