The difference between a politician and a statesman is that a politician thinks about the next election while the statesman think about the next generation.
Politics is a serious business dealing with serious issues and it should be taken very seriously, and seriously intelligent people should pronounce on political matters.
there can be no failure to a human who has not lost his courage, unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, human does not lose his being in the society in which he lives
The commercialization of molecular biology is the most stunning ethical event in the history of science, and it has happened with astonishing speed. For four hundred years since Galileo, science has a...
If ever you get invited into someone's home,' my father said (as he had been invited five or six times that morning), 'you go into the sitting-room and you say, Oh, what an attractive room! even if yo...
You do not know you cannot know the difficulty of the life of a politician. It means every minute of the day or night every ounce of your energy. There is no rest no relaxation. Enjoyment? A polit...
Politics is so difficult, it's generally only people who aren't quite up to the task who feel convinced they are.
Politicians are crooks!
Wc What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
You turn words, you deceive people.
An expert whose argument reeks of restraint or nuance often doesn't get much attention.
Power is a drug on which the politicians are hooked. They buy it from the voters using the voters' own money.
The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull. This is not always easy to achieve.
A conservative is a man who will not look at the new moon out of respect for that "ancient institution " the old one.
A politician is someone who knows everything about running a campaign and nothing about running a country.
I have never met a politician who has exceeded my low expectations of them.
Most of the mortgaged farmers.Most of the white-collar workers who had been unemployed these three years and four and five.Most of the people on relief rolls who wanted more relief.Most of the suburba...
More men have been elected between Sundown and Sunup than ever were elected between Sunup and Sundown.
All political lives unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture end in failure.
I wish I knew how to quit you, political jokers and pathological liars...