If people have to choose between freedom and sandwiches they will take sandwiches.
Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by mself.
In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of polities'. All issues are political issues.
Deep down he is shallow.
As I learnt very early in my life in Whitehall, the acid test of any political question is: What is the alternative?
Dirksen's Three Laws of Politics: 1. Get elected. 2. Get re-elected. 3. Don't get mad, get even.
Forgiving is all; forgetting is another thing.
He's like a football coach who's smart enough to win the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.
The Senate is the last primitive society in the world. We still worship the elders of the tribe and honour the territorial imperative.
To the victor belong the spoils of the enemy.
I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people. Let us all here assembled constitute ourselves prophets of a new order of competence and courage. This is a call to arms.
A statesman is an easy man, He tells his lies by rote; A journalist makes up his lies And takes you by the throat; So stay at home and drink your beer And let the neighbours vote.
Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once.
Money is the mother's milk of politics.
One fifth of the people are against everything all the time.
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.
Did you ever see that painting the Mona Lisa. It always reminds me of a reporter listening to a politician.
A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country.
It's nice to have four years between elections. It takes people that long to regain their faith.
