| Mankind will never see an end of trouble until... lovers of wisdom come to hold political power, or the holders of power... become lovers of wisdom. |
| Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other. |
| I offer my opponents a bargain: if they will stop telling lies about us, I will stop telling the truth about them. |
| Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber. |
| In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant. |
| Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against. |
| Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong. |
| Good leaders are like baseball umpires; they go practically unnoticed when doing their jobs right. |
| The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy. |
| One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. |