Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.
We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.
I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country.
Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party.
Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable; the principles of it are troublesome.
I've always said that in politics, your enemies can't hurt you, but your friends will kill you.
The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.