Politics Quotes

Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.

When they see me holding fish, they can see that I am comfortable with kings as well as with paupers.

Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving.

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.

What politicians want to create is irreversible change because when you leave office someone changes it back again.

I can remember when Democrats believed that it was the duty of America to fight for freedom over tyranny.

For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.

A fool and his money are soon elected.

It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.

In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.

Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.

I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot.

He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.

Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor.

I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.

I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something.

Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.

There might be some serious fun in politics.

Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.

The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.