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...
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.
Politics is so difficult, it's generally only people who aren't quite up to the task who feel convinced they are.
I have never met a politician who has exceeded my low expectations of them.
An expert whose argument reeks of restraint or nuance often doesn't get much attention.
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...
Power is a drug on which the politicians are hooked. They buy it from the voters using the voters' own money.
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...
They lives rough, and risk swinging, but they eat and drink like fighting-cocks. What means this? Politicians!
Let us hope that Lysenko's success in Russia will serve for many generations to come as another reminder to the world of how quickly and easily a science can be corrupted when ignorant political leade...
Politicians tend only to like democracy when it is to their personal advantage(From LONE WOLF, p.50)
Nothing so removes a man from his inner, mysterious, real life, nothing makes him so deaf and dumb as the picture of these petty passions and petty crimes which calls itself the world of politics.
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...
Macdonald's Law: Never write a letter if you can help it and never destroy one.
I'm not a member of any organized party I'm a Democrat.
I shall never ask never refuse nor ever resign an office.
Politicians will always be honest.To themselves!
All political lives unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture end in failure.
Politicians are crooks!