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I don't care who does the electing, as long as I get to do the nominating.

The oldest, wisest politician grows not more human so, but is merely a gray wharf rat at last.

We mean by "politics" the people's business -- the most important business there is.

Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see the things thou dost not.

The politician is like an acrobat: He keeps his balance by saying the opposite of what he does.

To "know your place" is a good idea in politics. That is not to say "stay in your place" or "hang on to your place," because ambition or boredom may dictate upward or downward mobility, but a sense of place -- a feel for one's own position in the control room -- is useful in gauging what you should try to do.

When they call the roll in the Senate, the senators do not know whether to answer "present" or "not guilty.

The most effective public official is one who, while finding passage through the maze of economic and governmental considerations, never forgets that compassion for people comes first.

There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze; inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible.

Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April .