politicians

Macdonald's Law: Never write a letter if you can help it and never destroy one.

I shall never ask never refuse nor ever resign an office.

A disposition to preserve and an ability to improve taken together would be my standard of a statesman.

I'm not a member of any organized party I'm a Democrat.

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

Probably the most distinctive characteristic of the successful politician is selective cowardice.

This is the first convention of the space age - where a candidate can promise the moon and mean it.

The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence.

A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree if you agree with him he is a statesman.

Whin a man gets to be my age he ducks political meetin's an' reads th' papers an' weighs th' ividence an' th' argymints - pro-argymints an' con-argymints an' makes up his mind ca'mly an' votes th' Dimmycratic Ticket.

Your representative owes you not his industry only but his judgement and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.

Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on office a rottenness begins in his conduct.

Our Congressmen are the finest body of men money can buy.

Successful democratic politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate appease bribe seduce bamboozle or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies.

90% of the politicians give the other 10% a bad reputation.

Now that all the members of the press are so delighted I lost I'd like to make a statement. As I leave you I want you to know -just think how much you'll be missing. You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore because gentlemen this is my last press conference.

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.

A ginooine statesman should be on his guard if he must hev beliefs not to b'lieve 'em too hard.