Quotes by American Authors - Page 79

To the victor belong the spoils of the enemy.
William L. Marcy
The Senate is the last primitive society in the world. We still worship the elders of the tribe and honour the territorial imperative.
Eugene McCarthy
He's like a football coach who's smart enough to win the game and dumb enough to think it's important.
Eugene McCarthy
Dirksen's Three Laws of Politics: 1. Get elected. 2. Get re-elected. 3. Don't get mad get even.
Everett Dirksen
Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by mself.
Herbert Hoover
You know very well that whether you are on page one or page thirty depends on whether they fear you. It is just as simple as that.
Richard Nixon
In politics a straight line is the shortest distance to disaster.
John P. Roche
Someone asked me... how I felt and I was reminded of a story that a fellow townsman of ours used to tell - Abraham Lincoln. They asked him how he felt once after an unsuccessful election. He said he felt like a little boy who has stubbed his toe in the dark. He said that he was too old to cry but it hurt too much to laugh.
Adlai Stevenson
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Vote for the man who promises least he'll be the least disappointing.
Bernard Baruch
A dictatorship is a country where they have taken the politics out of politics.
Sam Himmel
There is no excitement anywhere in the world short of war to match the excitement of the American presidential campaign.
Theodore White
Nothing was ever done so systematically as nothing is being done now.
Woodrow Wilson
This organization (United Nations) is created to prevent you from going to hell. It isn't created to take you to heaven.
Henry Cabot Lodge
Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meannesses for the public good.
Abraham Lincoln
Politics has got so expensive that it takes lots of money to even get beat with.
Will Rogers
There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of politics for then we get rid of cant and hypocrisy.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Politics. The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.
Ely Culbertson
The more you read about politics the more you got to admit that each party is worse than the other.
Will Rogers
Politics is the gizzard of society full of gut and gravel.
Henry David Thoreau
Politics is but the common pulse beat.
Wendell Phillips
Politics is the science of how who gets what when and why.
Sidney Hillman
The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.
Reinhold Niebuhr
If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.
Will Rogers
Politics as a practice whatever its professions has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
Henry Adams
Ultimately politics in a democracy reflects values much more than it shapes them.
Arnold A. Rogow
Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.
Henry Adams
We're eyeball to eyeball and I think the other fellow just blinked.
Dean Rusk
Three people marooned on a desert island would soon reinvent politics.
Mason Cooley
There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.
Henry Kissinger
The world is a dangerous place to live - not because of the people who are evil but because of the people who don't do anything about it.
Albert Einstein
The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.
Mark Twain
The great nations have always acted like gangsters and the small nations like prostitutes.
Stanley Kubrick
Politics is the diversion of trivial men who when they succeed at it become important in the eyes of more trivial men.
George Jean Nathan
Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
Ronald Reagan
If we cannot now end our differences at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.
John F Kennedy
I just received the following wire from my generous Daddy "Dear Jack: Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I am going to pay for a landslide."
John F Kennedy
An independent is a guy who wants to take the politics out of politics.
Adlai Stevenson
The fact that a reactionary can sometimes be right is a little less recognized that the fact that a liberal can be. . . .
Joseph Gies
I'm not an old experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.
Adlai Stevenson
The most important office is that of private citizen.
Louis D. Brandeis
Politicians make good company for a while just as children do - their self-enjoyment is contagious. But they soon exhaust their favourite subjects -themselves.
Garry Wills
More men have been elected between Sundown and Sunup than ever were elected between Sunup and Sundown.
Will Rogers
A ginooine statesman should be on his guard if he must hev beliefs not to b'lieve 'em too hard.
James Russell Lowell
a politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.
E.E. Cummings
An honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought.
Simon Cameron
A Liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
Robert Frost
If I believe in something I will fight for it with all I have. But I do not demand all or nothing. I would rather get something than nothing. Professional liberals want the fiery debate. They glory in defeat. The hardest job for a politician today is to have the courage to be a moderate. It's easy to take an extreme position.
Hubert Humphrey
Whin a man gets to be my age he ducks political meetin's an' reads th' papers an' weighs th' ividence an' th' argymints - pro-argymints an' con-argymints an' makes up his mind ca'mly an' votes th' Dimmycratic Ticket.
Finley Peter Dunne
Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on office a rottenness begins in his conduct.
Thomas Jefferson
I'm not a member of any organized party I'm a Democrat.
Will Rogers
I shall never ask never refuse nor ever resign an office.
George Washington
Our Congressmen are the finest body of men money can buy.
Maury Amsterdam
I gave 'em a sword. And they stuck it in and they twisted it with relish. And I guess if I had been in their position I'd have done the same.
Richard Nixon
Now that all the members of the press are so delighted I lost I'd like to make a statement. As I leave you I want you to know -just think how much you'll be missing. You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore because gentlemen this is my last press conference.
Richard Nixon
I have said what I meant and meant what I said. I have not done as well as I should like to have done but I have done my best frankly and forth-rightly no man can do more and you are entitled to no less.
Adlai Stevenson
The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull. This is not always easy to achieve.
Dean Acheson
The British House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.
Tony Bennett
Successful democratic politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate appease bribe seduce bamboozle or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies.
Walter Lippman
Reagan won because he ran against Jimmy Carter. Had he run unopposed he would have lost.
Mort Sahl