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A political career brings out the basest qualities in human nature.

There is no such thing as a nonpolitical speech by a politician.

The political world is stimulating. It's the most interesting thing you can do. It beats following the dollar.

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

I'm proud that I'm a politician. A politician is a man who understands government, and it takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead 10 or 15 years.

Politics makes strange bed-fellows.

Politics is the conduct of public affairs for private advantage.

Democracy: In which you say what you like and do what you're told.

We once worried that democracy could not survive if an undereducated populace knew too little. Now we worry if it can survive us knowing too much.

The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.

The more I saw of foreign countries the more I loved my own.

True patriots we; for be it understood we left our country for our country's good.

No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.

If school results were the key to power, girls would be running the world.

The world is full of cactus, but we don't have to sit on it.

A criminal trial is like a Russian novel: it starts with exasperating slowness as the characters are introduced to a jury, then there are complications in the form of minor witnesses, the protagonist finally appears and contradictions arise to produce drama, and finally as both jury and spectators grow weary and confused the pace quickens, reaching its climax in passionate final argument.

The notion of a farseeing and despotic statesman, who can lay down plans for ages yet unborn, is a fancy generated by the pride of the human intellect to which facts give no support.

The direct use of physical force is so poor a solution to the problem of limited resources that it is commonly employed only by small children and great nations.

A democratic despotism is like a theocracy: it assumes its own correctness.