When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.
Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.
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.
In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it. That we have carried as much political bunk as we have and still survived shows we are a super nation.
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.
I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat.
He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.
When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
An honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought.
A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country.
Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
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