politics Quotes

A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have elections is to find out if the polls were right?

Republicans have nothing but bad ideas and Democrats have no ideas.

In politics nothing is contemptible.

In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago it’s a sport.

Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish – occasionally I do windows.

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President I’m beginning to believe it.

America’s present need is not heroics but healing not nostrums but normalcy not revolution but restoration.