Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.
Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.
It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have been forged in controversies involving not very nice people.
Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.
In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.
In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.
Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.
Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other.
The leading student of business propaganda, Australian social scientist Alex Carey, argues persuasively that “the 20th century has been characterized by three developments of great political importance: the growth of democracy, the growth of corporate power, and the growth of corporate propaganda as a means of protecting corporate power against democracy.
An honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought.
I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
Man is by nature a political animal.
There are only two (major) parties today: The Stupid Party and The Evil Party. Once in a while the two parties get together to do something that is both stupid and evil, and that's called Bipartisanship.
We're at unique point in history where the things that we are building are going to significantly impact our social, political, economical, and personal lives.
Power, in a nutshell, is the ability to get things done, and politics is the ability to decide which things need to be done.
The modern patriotism, the true patriotism, the only rational patriotism is loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
What is the primary purpose of a political leader? To build a majority. If voters care about parking lots, then talk about parking lots.
Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.
All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field.
Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.
I have a problem with people who take the Constitution loosely and the Bible literally.
There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots.
I like the job. That's what I'll miss the most... I'm not sure anybody ever liked this as much as I've liked it.
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