The greatest superstition now entertained by public men is that hypocrisy is the royal road to success.

Good thing we've still got politics in Texas- finest form of free entertainment ever invented.

The tragedy of all political action is that some problems have no solution; none of the alternatives are intellectually consistent or morally uncompromising; and whatever decision is taken will harm somebody.

Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.

A political convention is just not a place from which you can come away with any trace of faith in human nature.

All of us in the Senate live in an iron lung-the iron lung of politics, and it is no easy task to emerge from that rarified atmosphere in order to breathe the same fresh air our constituents breathe.

Political action is the highest responsibility of a citizen.

In Massachusetts they [Democratic politicians] steal, in California they feud, and in New York they lie.

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.

The public life of every political figure is a continual struggle to rescue an element of choice from the pressure of circumstance.