A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party.
If we don''t succeed, we run the risk of failure.
Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country.
A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. Unfortunately, they don''t have a J.O.B.
Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.
The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that''s out always looks the best.
I don''t make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.
A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit.
In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
Good leaders are like baseball umpires; they go practically unnoticed when doing their jobs right.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man''s character, give him power.
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
Voters don''t decide issues, they decide who will decide issues.
Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.
Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable; the principles of it are troublesome.
The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy.
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.
More and more of our imports come from overseas.
Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against.
Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought.
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