Women are never again going to be mindless coffee-makers or mindless policy-makers in politics.

Why is it that when political ammunition runs low, inevitably the rusty artillery of abuse is always wheeled into action?

Unless we insist that politics is imagination and mind, we will learn that imagination and mind are politics, and of a kind we will not like.

A politician is a man who understands government, and it takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead 10 or 15 years.

As the master politician navigates the ship of state, he both creates and responds to public opinion. Adept at tacking with the wind, he also succeeds, at times, in generating breezes of his own.

Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.

One of the most fascinating aspects of politician-watching is trying to determine to what extent any politician believes what he says.

Consensus politics is a cyclical thing-in order to accumulate power, one must dispose of it, and as one disposes of it, one must accumulate more power to replace it. In financial terms, a dollar must be spent to make a dollar-or two, if things go well.

There seldom is enmity between seasoned old politicians, who know as much as men can of human weakness and human strength.

Politics is a war of causes; a joust of principles. Government is too serious a matter to admit of meaningless courtesies.