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In middle life politics are not a mental acquisition; they are a temperament.
Politics are not unlike war. Sometimes it is necessary to shoot from the hip.
The longer a politician bears power, the more he is controlled by that power.
A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.
Hope is the fuel of progress and fear is the prison in which you put yourself.
If this depression stays with us, the loser Tuesday is going to be the winner.
Random political acts produce random political results. Why waste even a rock?
I wonder if it's possible to be a Republican and a Christian at the same time.
With the end of the nominating process, American politics leaves logic behind.
Make no mistake about those who call themselves anti Zionist are anti Semitic.
It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.
Getting [cruise missiles] more accurate so that we can have precise precision.
Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
Politics is a jungle-torn between doing the right thing and staying in office.
No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.
Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
As long as countries like China keep going all in on clean energy, so must we.
You don't tell us how to stage the news and we don't tell you how to cover it.
We will also never bring up the permanent tax cut the president is advocating.
Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable — the art of the next best
He collected audiences around him, and flourished and exhibited and harangued.
Political institutions are a superstructure resting on an economic foundation.
Unlike Churchill, I have no plans to shape history. . . . Socrates gave advice
... the good are not willing to rule either for the sake of money or of honor.
Our intent will not be to create gridlock. Oh, except maybe from time to time.
Most of us are honest all the time, and all of us are honest most of the time.
The news of any politician's death should be listed under Public Improvements.
We can and must move U.S. politics forward by means of committed participation.
Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
Politics didn't lead me to working people. Working people led me into politics.
Senators are a never-ending source of amusement, amazement, and discouragement.
I have doubtless erred more or less in politics, but a crime I never committed.
In politics, as in poetry, it is sometimes true that it is darkest before dawn.
Dennis Kucinich's politics are more scrambled than Rod Steiger's dream journal.
I am not a political figure, nor do I want to be one; but I come with my heart.
If there's anything a public servant hates to do it's something for the public.
The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it.
They have done what they like. Their difficulty is to like what they have done.
It is beter to live 50 years as a tiger rather than live 100 years as a chicken
In volunteer politics, a builder can build faster than a destroyer can destroy.
If Communism was liberalism in a hurry, liberalism is Communism in slow motion.
You have an imperial presidency that makes Richard Nixon look like a boy scout.
If a politician isn't doing it to his wife , then he's doing it to his country.
I want to show you an optimistic sign that things are beginning to turn around.
If you can get enough votes so that mine will make a majority, you can have it.
In politics, as in life, we must above all things wish only for the attainable.
Perhaps the most significant moral characteristic of a nation is its hypocrisy.
The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs.
If Hitler invaded Hell, I'd find something nice to say about the Devil himself.
In politics it is necessary to take nothing tragically and everything seriously.