Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
The gratitude of place-expectants is a lively sense of future favours.
Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.
Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.
Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing.
National defense is the sacred duty of the young and all other people.
I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.
A statesman makes the occasion, but the occasion makes the politician.
In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.
In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.
Politics is a deleterious profession, like some poisonous handicrafts.
Ah, Feminism in the nineties, what a What is yours what is mine field.
Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult.
PRESIDENCY, n. The greased pig in the field game of American politics.
Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.
Take away the In God We Trust, tell me what the hell is wrong with us.
Authority doesn't work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
Politics is about who wins and loses. The rest is of marginal interest.
Poetry was the maiden I loved, but politics was the harridan I married.
Gridlock is great. My motto is, 'Don't just do something. Stand there.'
We have an economic policy that is just about 10,000 years out of date.
Back when they supported segregation, Lott and Thurmond were Democrats.
Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least.
Rick, I’ll tell you what - ten thousand bucks? Ten thousand dollar bet?
I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.
The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.
It is painful to behold a man employing his talents to corrupt himself.
Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.
Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.
For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.
The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor.
We would all like to vote for the best man but he is never a candidate.
They are fighting for the chair while I am fighting for your happiness.
We have built something [a nuclear stockpile] bigger than we can drive.
In Washington, DC, politics dominate even the most casual conversations.
I have no patience with people who go around blowing up innocent people.
Unlimited campaign spending eats at the heart of the democratic process.
We can achieve much greater representation through term-limited members.
Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
The Democrats smell blood and don't want to be told that it's their own.
A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead.
. . . peace is a thing which a person must be willing to fight for . . .
I will keep where there is wit stirring, and leave the faction of fools.
Whenever you put a man on the Supreme Court he ceases to be your friend.
My job is to look at what politics is doing, not be a politician myself.
Here we will have possibly a bunch of tax dodgers deciding the election.
People who leave Washington do so by way of the box... ballet or coffin.
Communism has defeated itself everywhere except... in American colleges.