“Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.”
“He thinks like a Tory, and talks like a Radical, and that's so important nowadays.”
“Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.”
“Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it.”
“There have been many great men that have flattered the people who never loved them.”
“The political arena leaves one no alternative, one must either be a dunce or a rogue.”
“Although he's regularly asked to do so, God does not take sides in American politics.”
“Politics are such a torment that I would advise every one I love not to mix with them.”
“The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.”
“Politics is a choice of enemas. You're gonna get it up the ass, no matter what you do.”
“We mean by ''politics'' the people's business -- the most important business there is.”
“Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.”
“Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.”
“People start parades -- politicians just get out in front and act like they're leading.”
“In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.”
“Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him.”
“Get thee glass eyes, and like a scurvy politician, seem to see the things thou dost not.”
“A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.”
“The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.”
“Little other than a red tape Talking-machine, and unhappy Bag of Parliamentary Eloquence.”
“Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong.”
“Politics is not worrying this country one-tenth as much as where to find a parking space.”
“It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.”
“Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.”
“Son, in politics you've got to learn that overnight chicken shit can turn to chicken salad.”
“Politics, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.”
“Any established village; could afford a town drunkard, a town atheist, and a few Democrats.”
“What this country needs is radicals who will stay that way regardless of the creeping years.”
“Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.”
“It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.”