After all, what does a politician have but his credibility?
Politics Quotes
The nation’s best thinker (Daniel Patrick Moynihan) among politicians since Lincoln and its best politician among thinkers since Jefferson.
People who think the mighty in Washington can be persuaded, or corrupted, if you will, by anything less than votes just don’t understand what it’s all about and never will. They don’t know what Washington juice is made of.
The politician is an acrobat. He keeps his balance by saying the opposite of what he does.
It was he (Van Buren) who conceived and constructed the gigantic patronage system which directly caused the death of two Presidents, nearly drove Lincoln insane and caused Cleveland to cry out, ‘It makes me feel like resigning and hell is to pay.’ It was he who mainly visualized and brought to pass the National Conventions […]
Reporter: Senator, are you for or against the MX missile system? Senator: Bob, the MX missile system reminds me of an old saying that the country folk in my state like to say. It goes like this: “You can carry a pig for six miles, but if you set it down it might run away.” […]
What’s wrong with McCarthy is simply that he does not play the American political game according to the rules. He cheats. He proceeds on the assumption that the voters are too stupid to prefer the complicated truth to the simple, dramatic lie. So far, moreover, McCarthy has gotten away with playing the American voters for […]
You don’t have to fool all the people all of the time; you just have to fool enough to get elected.
The only thing worse than a silly politician analyzing art is a silly artist analyzing politics.
Here richly, with ridiculous display, The Politician’s corpse was laid away. While all of his acquaintance sneered and slanged I wept: for I had longed to see him hanged.
