Quotes in Politics
Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.
When President Bush goes on television and says certain cultures hate us for our democracy and freedom, he's just wrong. Everywhere I went in the Middle East, everyone told me how much they loved America and Americans; the hatred is directed at American policy.
Political language -- and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists -- is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.
Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president.
Whenever the legislature attempts to regulate the differences between masters and their workmen, its counsellors are always the masters. When the regulation, therefore, is in favour of the workmen, it is always just and equitable; but it is sometimes otherwise when in favour of the masters.
Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.
In politics, an organized minority is a political majority.