Politics Quotes

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 .

Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in the question is whether we're going forward to tomorrow or whether we're going to go past to the back!

I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best, is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

A statesman is a politician who places himself at the service of the nation.

Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.

In the domain of Political Economy, free scientific inquiry meets not merely the same enemies as in all other domains. The peculiar nature of the material it deals with, summons as foes into the field of battle the most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human beast, the Furies of private interest.