Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.
The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
Vote for the man who promises least; he’ll be the least disappointing.
So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we’ll be called a democracy.
As you make your bed, so you must lie in it.
In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
Under every stone lurks a politician.
Frankly, I don’t mind not being President. I just mind that someone else is.
I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher.
A liberal is a man who is willing to spend somebody else’s money.
An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.
Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.
I once said to my father, when I was a boy, ‘Dad we need a third political party.’ He said to me, ‘I’ll settle for a second.’
In politics the middle way is none at all.
A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.
Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
In politics it is necessary either to betray one’s country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.
Politics is the art of controlling your environment.
A fool and his money are soon elected.
In order to have your voice be heard in Washington, you have to make some little contribution.
Good government is good politics.
If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.
Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.
By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he’s been bought ten times over.
