| Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks. |
| Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel. |
| Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong. |
| We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy. |
| All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field. |
| George Washington is the only president who didn't blame the previous administration for his troubles. |
| Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have elections is to find out if the polls were right? |
| There are always too many Democratic congressmen, too many Republican congressmen, and never enough U.S. congressmen. |
| The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning. |
| A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time. |