“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.”
“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.”
“The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.”
“Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse, and things won't get worse unless they get elected.”
“I do not look for much to come out of government ownership as long as we have Democrats and Republicans.”
“It takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for fifteen years.”
“Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel.”
“Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.”
“The most successful politician is he who says what everybody is thinking most often and in the loudest voice.”
“When a leader is in the Democratic Party he is a boss, and when he is in the Republican Party he is a leader.”
“Only people who look dull ever get into the House of Commons, and only people who are dull ever succeed there.”
“All politics takes place on a slippery slope. The most important four words in politics are ''up to a point.''”
“In Mexico an air conditioner is called a politician because it makes a lot of noise but doesn't work very well.”
“A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.”