“An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.”
“I played by the rules of politics as I found them.”
“It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.”
“Rome had Senators too, and that is why it declined.”
“A majority is always better than the best repartee.”
“A Conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.”
“The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.”
“Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.”
“The problem with political jokes is they get elected.”
“He serves his party best who serves his country best.”
“Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.”
“Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.”
“The first mistake in public business is going into it.”
“What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.”
“Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.”
“People say I'm indecisive, but I don't know about that.”
“In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.”
“In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.”
“Now an' then an innocent man is sent t' th' legislature.”
“Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.”
“I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.”
“A liberal is a man who leaves a room when the fight begins.”
“Hell hath no fury like a crooked politician denied his cut.”
“Politics is the gizzard of society, full of gut and gravel.”
“Fleas can be taught nearly anything that a Congressman can.”
“Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world.”
“In war you can be killed only once. In politics, many times.”
“A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted in the air.”
“My life's work has been accomplished. I did all that I could.”
“The house of Lords is a model on how to care for the elderly.”