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.
PRESIDENCY, n. The greased pig in the field game of American politics.
In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.
As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound.
Are you better off today than you were four years ago?
Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.
Most people assume the fights are going to be the left versus the right, but it always is the reasonable versus the jerks.
Politics is more difficult than physics.
[on the Republican party] A party with a narrow vision, a party that is afraid of the future.
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence: nor is the law less stable than the fact.
The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office.
They have done what they like. Their difficulty is to like what they have done.
And, when the votes are counted, let everybody, including the candidates, get into a good humor as quick as they got into a bad one.
Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.
We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.
A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead.
Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.
What we need in appointive positions is men of knowledge and experience who have sufficient character to resist temptations.
It is absurd to entrust the defense of a country to people who own nothing in it.
The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century.
I've never professed to be anything but an average student.
In George Bush you get experience, and with me you get the future.
Sometimes cameras and television are good to people and sometimes they aren't. I don't know if its the way you say it, or how you look.
The President is going to benefit from me reporting directly to him when I arrive.
Hawaii has always been a very pivotal role in the Pacific. It is in the Pacific. It is a part of the United States that is an island that is right here.
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