“In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.”
“I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers; what I said was all saloonkeepers are Democrats.”
“Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build A bridge even where there is no river.”
“We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values.”
“There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.”
“It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public.”
“He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.”
“I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.”
“Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.”
“The politician is like an acrobat : he keeps his balance By saying the opposite of what he does.”
“Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.”
“Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul -- politics does the same thing for the body.”
“I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.”
“My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised.”
“I am invariably of the politics of the people at whose table I sit, or beneath whose roof I sleep.”
“The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service.”
“Politics is like a race horse. A good jockey must know how to fall with the least possible damage.”
“As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date.”
“At home you always have to be a politician. When you're abroad you almost feel yourself a statesman.”
“The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up.”
“Don't fall in love with politicians, they're all a disappointment. They can't help it, they just are.”
“Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15.”
“In politics, as on the sickbed, people toss from side to side, thinking they will be more comfortable.”
“A political convention is not a place where you can come away with any trace of faith in human nature.”
“A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life.”
“Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.”
“Let us not forget that we can never go farther than we can persuade at least half of the people to go.”
“People that are really weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.”
“It is hard to say why politicians are called servants, unless it is because a good one is hard to find.”
“Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a politician who has lost his job, save only a retired stud-horse.”