Why pay money to have your family tree traced; go into politics and your opponents will do it for you.

Congress: Where a person gets up to speak, has nothing to say, nobody listens, then everyone disagrees.

A president can’t fool all the people all the time. That’s why we elect a president and a vice president.

The Japanese have bought everything in America except the politicians. The Japanese want quality products.

Republicans and Democrats have a lot in common. Republicans wear $1,000 suits, and Democrats drive $1,000 cars.

American politicians will do anything for money; English politicians will take the money and won’t do anything.

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it and then misapplying the wrong remedies.

Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.

Governor Clinton talks about change, change, change. Well that’s all you’re going to have in your pockets if he’s elected.

Politicians are wonderful people as long as they stay away from things they don’t understand, such as working for a living.

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

Today’s public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can’t read them either.

If a person is well-informed on world issues, he can run for political office. And if the voters are not well-informed, he can get elected.

A politician’s idea of a mistake in judgement is accepting a small bribe when he should have done the ethical thing–hold out for a big one.

Only in America… do we use the word ‘politics’ to describe the process so well: ‘Poli’ in Latin meaning ‘many’ and ‘tics’ meaning ‘bloodsucking creatures’

The political candidates are planning their strategy for the fall campaign. Right now they must honestly decide on which issues they’re going to be dishonest.