“Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.”
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“Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.”
“If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers.”
“Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.”
“A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.”
“Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.”
“Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.”
“You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.”
“The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.”
“All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.”
“An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.”
“Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.”
“Oh, that lovely title, ex-president.”
“In politics nothing is contemptible.”
“A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.”
“A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.”
“Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.”
“Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.”
“It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.”
“I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.”
“Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.”
“In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.”
“Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.”
“Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.”