In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.
Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problems of wheat.
Politics is a blood sport.
Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.
The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.
The Labour Party is going about the country stirring up apathy.
The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopts them.
The trouble with socialists is that they let their bleeding hearts go to their bloody heads.
The world is a dangerous place to live - not because of the people who are evil but because of the people who don't do anything about it.
There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.
Three people marooned on a desert island would soon reinvent politics.
We're eyeball to eyeball, and I think the other fellow just blinked.
What matters in Politics is what men actually do - sincerity is no excuse for acting unpolitically, and insincerity may be channelled by politics into good results.
When Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero 106-43 BC,) was in 64 BC running for consul of Rome he was reported to be advised by his "campaign manager" that the voters "had rather you lied to them than refused them."
The essential ingredient of politics is timing.
It was a storm in a tea cup, but in politics we sail in paper boats.
Party-spirit . . . which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.