A professional politician is a professionally dishonorable man. In
order to get anywhere near high office he has to make so many
compromises and submit to so many humiliations that he becomes
indistinguishable from a streetwalker.
-- H.L. Mencken
order to get anywhere near high office he has to make so many
compromises and submit to so many humiliations that he becomes
indistinguishable from a streetwalker.
-- H.L. Mencken
Related:
- Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman,
that she was born so long ago. -- H. L.... - When a man laughs at his misfortunes, he loses a great
many friends.
They never forgive the loss of their perogative. ... - A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.
H. L.... - H. L. Mencken suffers from the hallucination that he is H.
L. Mencken -- there is no cure for a disease of that... - A man may be a fool and not know it -- but not if he is married.
H. L.... - A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
H. L.... - A politician has to be able to see both sides of an issue,
so he can get around it...
