Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
In politics stupidity is not a handicap.
The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy.
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
There ain’t no answer. There ain’t gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That’s the answer.
Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.
It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.
Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
I don’t make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There’s nothing to do but to stand there and take it.
Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don’t vote.
Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.
The ballot is stronger than the bullet.
No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution… revolution is but thought carried into action.
Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
A week is a long time in politics.
The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.
In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.
Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.
Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you.
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I’m beginning to believe it.
Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
