Unfortunately, politicians have the Paul Masson theory of government – We will deal with no problems before its time.”
Politics Quotes
It is more than a crime; it is a political fault.
Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government.
The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
To ask a politician to lead us is to ask the tail of a dog to lead the dog.
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
If I seem to take part in politics, it is only because politics encircles us today like the coil of a snake from which one cannot get out, no matter how much one tries. I wish therefore to wrestle with the snake.
My fellow citizens, it is an honor and a pleasure to be here today. My opponent has openly admitted he feels an affinity toward your city, but I happen to like this area. It might be a salubrious place to him, but to me it is one of the nation’s most delightful garden spots. When […]
Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.
(It was the 1950 Florida primary campaign for the U.S. Senate when George Smathers challenged incumbent Claude Pepper. In his campaign, Smathers targeted Pepper’s unrestrained liberalism – before liberalism became a dirty word – and the fears of uneducated voters. In a classic campaign speech in rural northern Florida, Smathers told his audience that Pepper […]
