High office is like a pyramid; only two kinds of animals reach the summit, reptiles and eagles.
Politics Quotes
Politics ruins the character.
A political career brings out the basest qualities in human nature.
Multitude, n. A crowd; the source of political wisdom and virtue. In a republic, the object of the statesman’s adoration.
It is often said that politicians are animals. Of course, that is entirely untrue. There are, however, such creatures as political animals, but I am sure that no animal would ever choose to have all-night sittings.
Like many of you last month, I watched that giant masquerade ball at Madison Square Garden – where 20,000 radicals and liberals came dressed up as moderates and centrists – in the greatest single exhibition of cross-dressing in American political history. One by one, the prophets of doom appeared at the podium. The Reagan decade, […]
Nepotism, n. Appointing your grandmother to office for the good of the party.
When Johnson was ill and unable to exert himself as much as usual without fatigue, Mr. Burke having been mentioned, he said: ‘That fellow calls forth all my powers. Were I to see Burke now, it would kill me.’
My friends, this election is about much more than who gets what. It is about who we are. It is about what we believe. It is about what we stand for as Americans. There is a religious war going on in our country for the soul of America. It is a cultural war, as critical […]
Nominee, n. A modest gentleman shrinking from the distinction of private life and diligently seeking the honorable obscurity of public office.
