Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven't had one since TaftLook at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln Author:Will Rogers
A man that'd expict to thrain lobsters to fly in a year is called a loonytic; but a man that thinks men can be tur-rned into angels by an iliction is called a rayformer an' remains at large Author:Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley's Philosophy, 1900
If a politician murders his mother, the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not that it was a terrible thing to do, but rather that in a statement made six years before he had gone on record as being opposed to matricide Author:Meg Greenfield
When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale Author:John Gardner
Political campaigns are designedly made into emotional orgies which endeavor to distract attention from the real issues involved, and they actually paralyze what slight powers of cerebration man can normally muster Author:James Harvey Robinson, The Human Comedy, 1937
I offer my opponents a bargain: if they will stop telling lies about us, I will stop telling the truth about them Author:Adlai Stevenson, campaign speech, 1952
Take our politicians: they're a bunch of yo-yosThe presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a high school debate, with an encyclopedia of cliches the first prize Author:Saul Bellow
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right Author:H.L. Mencken, 1956
Mankind will never see an end of trouble until... lovers of wisdom come to hold political power, or the holders of power... become lovers of wisdom Author:Plato, The Republic
Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country - and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust Author:Charles Krauthammer
Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other Author:Oscar Ameringer
People often say that, in a democracy, decisions are made by a majority of the peopleOf course, that is not trueDecisions are made by a majority of those who make themselves heard and who vote - a very different thing Author:Walter H. Judd