Incumbent, n.: Person of liveliest interest to the outcumbents.
Politics Quotes
People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
There is no waste in government. Politicians create programs for the specific purpose of helping their political supporters – to make it easier to reelect the politicians. The reelection rate of incumbents proves the programs are very efficient; they do exactly what they’re designed to do.
The partisan strife in which the people of the country are permitted to periodically engage does not tend to the development of ugly traits of character, but merely discloses those that preexist.
Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable – the art of the next best.
I do not like politics any better than you do; but they get only my mornings, and you know politics and a belly-ful are better than poetry and starvation.
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.
