The evil of two lessers. (describing the two-party political system)
Politics Quotes
Delegation, n. In American politics, an article of merchandise that comes in sets.
Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman’s power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.
If you can’t take money from people and then screw them, you have no business being a politician.
Incumbent, n.: Person of liveliest interest to the outcumbents.
People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
There is no waste in government. Politicians create programs for the specific purpose of helping their political supporters – to make it easier to reelect the politicians. The reelection rate of incumbents proves the programs are very efficient; they do exactly what they’re designed to do.
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.
