| 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. |