I possessed not one of the qualities, not cultivated one of the arts, that recommend men to the favor and protection of the great. I was not made for a minion or a fool. As little did I follow the trade of winning the hearts, by imposing on the understandings of the people.
Politics Quotes
Populist, n. A fossil patriot of the early agricultural period, found in the old red soapstone underlying Kansas.
Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.
Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxi cabs and cutting hair.
Push, n. One of the two things mainly conducive to success, especially in politics. The other is Pull.
A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.
If you’re sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and principles, come and join this campaign. (Hilton Head, S.C., Feb. 16, 2000)
He brings to the fierce struggle of politics the tepid enthusiasm of a lazy summer afternoon at a cricket match.
Quorum, n. A sufficient number of members of a deliberative body to have their own way and their own way of having it. In the U. S. Senate a quorum consists of the chairman of the Committee on Finance and a messenger from the White House.
No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.
