916 quotes found
“Politics is not an exact science.”
“A politician thinks of the next election a statesman of the next generation.”
“It is a condition which confronts us - not a theory.”
“A majority is always better than the best repartee.”
“Damned Neuters in their Middle way of Steering Are neither Fish nor Flesh nor good Red Herring.”
“The purification of politics is an iridescent dream.”
“Like an armed warrior like a plumed knight James G. Blaine marched down the halls of American Congress and threw his shining lance full and fair against the brazen foreheads of the defamers of hi...”
“If a due participation of office is a matter of right how are vacancies to be obtained? Those by death are few by resignation none.”
“Nothing is politically right which is morally wrong.”
“Politics is but the common pulsebeat of which revolution is the feverspasm.”
“The Republicans have their splits right after election and Democrats have theirs just before an election.”
“The statesman shears the sheep the politician skins them.”
“My hat's in the ring. The fight is one and I'm stripped to the buff.”
“Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.”
“If nominated I will not accept if elected I will not serve.”
“Who is the dark horse he has in his stable?”
“As long as I count the votes what are you going to do about it?”
“To those who will decide if he should be tried for 'high crimes and misdemeanors' -the House of Representatives-And to those who would sit in judgment at such a trial if the House impeaches -the Se...”
“You can rule ignorance; you can manipulate the illiterate; you can do whatever you want when a people are uneducated, so that goes in line with corrupt business and corrupt politics.”
“Politics is show business for ugly people.”
