A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man
Politics Quotes
The partisan strife in which the people of the country are permitted to periodically engage does not tend to the development of ugly traits of character, but merely discloses those that preexist.
Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable – the art of the next best.
I do not like politics any better than you do; but they get only my mornings, and you know politics and a belly-ful are better than poetry and starvation.
Mugwump, n. In politics one afflicted with self-respect and addicted to the vice of independence. A term of contempt.
Politics is not an exact science.
No wonder that, when a political career is so precarious, men of worth and capacity hesitate to embrace it. They cannot afford to be thrown out of their life’s course by a mere accident.
Multitude, n. A crowd; the source of political wisdom and virtue. In a republic, the object of the statesman’s adoration.
Politics ruins the character.
A political career brings out the basest qualities in human nature.
