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His mind works in the right directions but seldom works clearly and cleanly. His bread is of unbolted flour, and much straw, too, mixes in the bran, and sometimes gravel stones.
- Henry Ward Beecher, on Abraham Lincoln

Filthy story teller, despot, liar, thief, braggart, buffoon, usurper, monster, ignoramus Abe, old scoundrel, perjurer, swindler, tyrant, field-butcher, land-pirate.
- Harpers magazine, on Abraham Lincoln

Nothing more than a well meaning baboon.
- General McCellan, on Abraham Lincoln

An offensive exhibition of boorishness and vulgarity.
- General McCellan, on Abraham Lincoln

hat Washington was not a scholar is certain. That he is too illiterate, unlearned, unread for his station is equally beyond dispute.
- John Adams, on George Washington

A slur upon the moral government of the world.
- John Quincy Adams, on Thomas Jefferson

Jeffersonian Democracy simply meant the possession of the federal government by the agrarian masses led by an aristocracy of slave-owning masses.
- Charles A. Beard, on Thomas Jefferson

        
                
                        

Insults about Politics & Politicians :::Bill Clinton

The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- George Stephanopolous

Bill Clinton's foreign policy experience is pretty much confined to having had breakfast once at the International House of Pancakes.
- Pat Buchanan

I'm just sick and tired of presidents who jog. Remember, if Bill Clinton wins, we're going to have another four years of his white thighs flapping in the wind.
- Arianna Huffington

Clinton is a man who thinks international affairs means dating a girl from out of town.
- Tom Clancy

I have never seen. . .so slippery, so disgusting a candidate.
- Nat Hentoff on Bill Clinton

The prince of sleaze.
- Jerry Brown on Bill Clinton

Kennedy after all has lots of glamour - Gregory Peck with an atom bomb in his holster.
- William F. Buckley, Jr., on John F. Kennedy

The enviably attractive nephew who sings an Irish ballad for the company and then winsomely disappears before the table clearing and dishwashing begin.
- Lyndon B. Johnson, on John F. Kennedy

Declassified papers report that John Kennedy was taking eight different medications a day. He was so wasted, his Secret Service code name was Ted Kennedy.
- Craig Kilborn, on John F. Kennedy

How can a guy this politically immature seriously expect to be president?
- Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr., on John F. Kennedy

It has been the political career of this man to begin with hypocrisy, proceed with arrogance, and finish with contempt.
- Thomas Paine, on John Adams

He is distrustful, obstinate, excessively vain, and takes no counsel from anyone.
- Thomas Jefferson, on John Adams

He is ignorant, passionate, hypocritical, corrupt and easily swayed by the basest men who surround him.
- Henry Clay, on Andrew Jackson

The two-bit president of a five-star general.
- Anonymous on, Harry S. Truman

If there had been any formidable body of cannibals in the country he would have promised them with free missionaries, fattened at the taxpayer's expense.
- Henry Mencken, on Harry Truman's 1948 presidential campaign

To err is Truman.
- A popular (lame!) joke in 1946

Truman is short, square, simple, and looks one straight in the face.
- Harold Nicolson, on Harry S. Truman

Harry Truman proves that old adage that any man can become President of the United States.
- Norman Thomas, on Harry S. Truman

You don't set a fox to watching the chickens just because he has a lot of experience in the hen house.
- Harry S. Truman, on Richard Nixon's nomination for President

He is a shifty-eyed goddamn liar. He's one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides.
- Harry S. Truman, on Richard Nixon

Richard Nixon is a no-good lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he'd lie just to keep his hand in.
- Harry S. Truman, on Richard Nixon

Nixon's motto was if two wrongs don't make a right, try three.
- Norman Cousins, on Richard M. Nixon

Richard Nixon told us he was going to take crime out of the streets. He did, he took it into the White House.
- Richard Abernethy, on Richard M. Nixon

Where is Lee Harvey Oswald now that his country needs him?
- Anonymous, on Richard Nixon

Avoid all needle drugs - the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.
- Abbie Hoffman, on Richard M. Nixon

He bleeds people. He draws every drop of blood and then drops them from a cliff. He'll blame any person he can put his foot on.
- Martha Mitchell, on Richard M. Nixon

He inherited some good instincts from his Quaker forebears, but by diligent hard work, he overcame them.
- James Reston, on Richard Nixon
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Many, many more can be found. Insulting the president, presidential candidates, and politicians is a time-honored practice not only in the US, but in every free country around the world.