The first mistake in public business is the going into it.
Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.
In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.
There's a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a billion dollars.
There are few ironclad rules of diplomacy but to one there is no exception. When an official reports that talks were useful, it can safely be concluded that nothing was accomplished.
When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale.
I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a fool, which is a matter of no small difficulty.
The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument.
You have to give the press confrontations. When you give them confrontations, you get attention; when you get attention, you can educate.
Politics and war are remarkably similar situations.
All the world over, I will back the masses against the classes.
If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.
Jesus was the first socialist, the first to seek a better life for mankind.
Those who insist on the dignity of their office show they have not deserved it.
More things in politics happen by accident or exhaustion than happen by conspiracy.
The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it.
In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.
Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.
Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.
Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.
Whatever starts in California unfortunately has an inclination to spread.
Paul Ryan's love for Rage Against The Machine is amusing, because he is the embodiment of the machine that our music has been raging against for two decades
King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.
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