Unless we insist that politics is imagination and mind, we will learn that imagination and mind are politics, and of a kind we will not like.

Why is it that when political ammunition runs low, inevitably the rusty artillery of abuse is always wheeled into action?

Women are never again going to be mindless coffee-makers or mindless policy-makers in politics.

I always wanted to get into politics, but I was never light enough to make the team.

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

My definition of a redundancy is an airbag in a politician's car.

There are numerous bugbears in the profession of politician. First, ordinary everyday life suffers. Second, there are many temptations to ruin you and those around you. And I suppose, third, and this is rarely discussed, people at the top generally have no friends.

A politician must have some scruples, a certain decency; he cannot smear himself in the mud for the sake of a high ideal.

Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

Tolerance is an admirable intellectual gift; but it is of little worth in politics.

It is evident that the state is a creation of nature, and that man is by nature a political animal.

As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between the Republicans and the Democrats is the Republicans are Socialists and the Democrats are Bolsheviks.

Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Modern politics is, at bottom, a struggle not of men but of forces. The men become every year more and more creatures of force, massed about central powerhouses.

Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.

Whenever a man reaches the top of the political ladder, his enemies unite to pull him down. His friends become critical and exacting.

T]he state Republican chairman, Gaylord Parkinson, postulated what he called the Eleventh Commandment: Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican.

Politics is the art of making civilization work.

Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him.

All politics is local.