Every time you do a favor for a constituent, you make nine enemies and one ingrate.
Politics Quotes
Mugwump, n. In politics one afflicted with self-respect and addicted to the vice of independence. A term of contempt.
Politics is not an exact science.
No wonder that, when a political career is so precarious, men of worth and capacity hesitate to embrace it. They cannot afford to be thrown out of their life’s course by a mere accident.
Multitude, n. A crowd; the source of political wisdom and virtue. In a republic, the object of the statesman’s adoration.
Politics ruins the character.
A political career brings out the basest qualities in human nature.
Nepotism, n. Appointing your grandmother to office for the good of the party.
It is often said that politicians are animals. Of course, that is entirely untrue. There are, however, such creatures as political animals, but I am sure that no animal would ever choose to have all-night sittings.
Like many of you last month, I watched that giant masquerade ball at Madison Square Garden – where 20,000 radicals and liberals came dressed up as moderates and centrists – in the greatest single exhibition of cross-dressing in American political history. One by one, the prophets of doom appeared at the podium. The Reagan decade, […]
