We are the trade union for pensioners and children, the trade union for the disabled and the sick… the trade union for the nation as a whole.

I have simplified my politics into an utter detestation of all existing governments; and, as it is the shortest and most agreeable and summary feeling imaginable, the first moment of an universal republic would convert...

You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.

Politics makes strange postmasters.

Nothing is so foolish, they say, as for a man to stand for office and woo the crowd to win its vote, buy its support with presents, court the applause of all those fools and...

Now, we deny not, but that politicians may sometimes abuse religion, and make it serve for the promoting of their own private interests and designs; which yet they could not do so well neither, were...

The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

He speaks to Me as if I was a public meeting.

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

My deepest feeling about politicians is that they are dangerous lunatics to be avoided when possible and carefully humored; people, above all, to whom one must never tell the truth.

In politics… shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.

Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates.

The belief that politics can be scientific must inevitably produce tyrannies. Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated, and the sciences depend upon their separation. Empirical politics must...

Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A...

It is hard to say why politicians are called servants, unless it is because a good one is hard to find.

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

Politics is far more complicated than physics.

Every clique is a refuge for incompetence. It fosters corruption and disloyalty, it begets cowardice, and consequently is a burden upon and a drawback to the progress of the country. Its instincts and actions are...

There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of politics, for we get rid of cant and hypocrisy.

To speak on without saying anything has always been the greatest gift of orators.

The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don’t acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, instead.

Politics are such a torment that I would advise every one I love not to mix with them.

Heads of state are notoriously ill prepared for their mature careers; think of Adolf Hitler (landscape painter), Ho Chi Minh (seaman), and our own Ronald Reagan.

It is far easier for the proverbial camel to pass through the needle’s eye, hump and all, than for an erstwhile colonial administration to give sound and honest counsel of a political nature to its...

Politics, when I am in it, it makes me sick.

We assume that politicians are without honor. We read their statements trying to crack the code. The scandals of their politics: not so much that men in high places lie, only that they do so...

In politics, as on the sickbed, people toss from side to side, thinking they will be more comfortable.

Many politicians lay it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story,...