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Party honesty is party expediency.

It is a condition which confronts us--not a theory.

Let it alone. Let it pass by.

Finality is not the language of politics.

In politics nothing is contemptible.

University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.

England has never enjoyed a genuine social revolution. Maybe that's what's wrong with that dear, tepid, vapid, insipid, stuffy, little country.

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

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.

Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.

Crime does not pay ... as well as politics.

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

The word "politics" is derived from the word "poly", meaning 'many', and the word 'ticks', meaning 'blood sucking parasites'.

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

Rumor travels faster, but it don't stay put as long as truth.