Harry S Truman Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)

“Always be sincere, even if you don't mean it.”

“You can never get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have all the facts, you cannot make proper judgements about what is going on.”

“The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all.”

“A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.”

“A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for 15 years.”

“In my opinion eight years as president is enough and sometimes too much for any man to serve in that capacity.”

“Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.”

“Whenever a fellow tells me he's bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me.”

“Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here.”

“I remember when I first came to Washington. For the first six months you wonder how the hell you ever got here. For the next six months you wonder how the hell the rest of them ever got here.”