(It was the 1950 Florida primary campaign for the U.S. Senate when George Smathers challenged incumbent Claude Pepper. In his campaign, Smathers targeted Pepper’s unrestrained liberalism – before liberalism became a dirty word – and the fears of uneducated voters. In a classic campaign speech in rural northern Florida, Smathers told his audience that Pepper […]
Politics Quotes
Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.
When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were- to the very last minute- a chance to lose it. This is battle, This is politics, This is anything.
Politics is a deleterious profession, like some poisonous handicrafts. Men in power have no opinions, but may be had cheap for any opinion, for any purpose.
Our only safe rule in politics heretofore, was, always to believe that the worst would be done. Then we were not deceived.
The idea the religion and politics don’t mix was invented by the devil to keep Christians from running their own country.
As long as there are entrenched social and political distinctions between sexes, races, or classes, there will be forms of science whose main function is to rationalize and legitimize these distinctions.
I think I would make a great politician. I’m nice to nearly everybody, and I can talk for long periods of time without actually saying anything. I’m pro-choice, pro get-a-life and pro-death, which means that everyone would have to vote for me at least a third of the time.
Unfortunately, politicians have the Paul Masson theory of government – We will deal with no problems before its time.”
It is more than a crime; it is a political fault.
