A politican is an animal who can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.
All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.
Man is by nature a civic animal.
Politics is not an exact science.
A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman, of the next generation.
It is a condition which confronts us - not a theory.
A majority is always better than the best repartee.
Damned Neuters, in their Middle way of Steering, Are neither Fish, nor Flesh, nor good Red Herring.
I always voted at my party's call, And I never thought of thinking for myself at all.
The purification of politics is an iridescent dream.
Like an armed warrior, like a plumed knight, James G. Blaine marched down the halls of American Congress and threw his shining lance full and fair against the brazen foreheads of the defamers of his country, and the malign-ers of his honor.
If a due participation of office is a matter of right, how are vacancies to be obtained? Those by death are few; by resignation, none.
Nothing is politically right which is morally wrong.
Politics is but the common pulsebeat, of which revolution is the feverspasm.
The Republicans have their splits right after election and Democrats have theirs just before an election.
The statesman shears the sheep, the politician skins them.
My hat's in the ring. The fight is one and I'm stripped to the buff.
Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.
If nominated I will not accept; if elected I will not serve.
Who is the dark horse he has in his stable?
