The politician is an acrobat. He keeps his balance by saying the opposite of what he does.

A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they aren't still there, he's no longer a political leader.

Politics, n. A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.

Political skill] is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.

A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.

In a society like ours, politics is improvisation. To the artful dodger rather than the true believer goes the prize.

Yet in a society of conflicting interests the only democratic way in which matters can be improved is through politics, and politics means the compromising of extremes in order to achieve that notorious half loaf which the passionate and the outraged never find sufficient.

Never ask poets about politics or politicians about poe-try.

Old Prayer for Politicians: Teach us to utter words that are tender and gentle. Tomorrow we may have to eat them.

The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time.