“Political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.”
“In politics... shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.”
“I don't care who does the electing as long as I get to do the nominating.”
“If it's going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.”
“In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.”
“When you've got them by their wallets, their hearts and minds will follow.”
“You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.”
“Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child.”
“In statesmanship get the formalities right, never mind about the moralities.”
“It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me.”
“A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.”
“It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.”
“A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.”
“If a politician isn't doing it to his wife , then he's doing it to his country.”
“When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.”
“Politicians say they're beefing up our economy. Most don't know beef from pork.”
“In politics, as in life, we must above all things wish only for the attainable.”
“No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.”
“Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything.”
“It doesn't matter what I say as long as I sound different from other politicians.”
“If there is anything a public servant hates to do it is something for the public.”
“To speak on without saying anything has always been the greatest gift of orators.”
“The news of any politician's death should be listed under ''Public Improvements.''”
“It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.”
“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.”