You know very well that whethe...

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~

Who is the dark horse he has i...

Who is the dark horse he has in his stable?

~William Thackeray~

When I was a boy, I was told t...

When I was a boy, I was told that anybody could become president. I'm beginning to believe it.

~Clarence Darrow~

When Cicero (Marcus Tullius Ci...

When Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero 106-43 BC,) was in 64 BC running for consul of Rome he was reported to be advised by his ""campaign manager"" that the voters ""had rather you lied to them than refused them.""

~Anonymous~

What obstructs the vision and ...

What obstructs the vision and is called smog in our big cities is called defining the issues in politics

~Anonymous~

What matters in Politics is wh...

What matters in Politics is what men actually do - sincerity is no excuse for acting unpolitically, and insincerity may be channelled by politics into good results.

~Bernard Crick~

What counts is not necessarily...

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 ~

We're eyeball to eyeball, and ...

We're eyeball to eyeball, and I think the other fellow just blinked.

~Dean Rusk~

Vote for the man who promises ...

Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing.

~Bernard Baruch~

Vice president: A spare tire o...

Vice president: A spare tire on the automobile of government.

~John Nance Garner~

Unlike Churchill, I have no pl...

Unlike Churchill, I have no plans to shape history. . . . Socrates gave advice - and they poisoned him.

~George Bush~

Ultimately politics in a democ...

Ultimately politics in a democracy reflects values much more than it shapes them.

~Arnold A. Rogow~

To the victor belong the spoil...

To the victor belong the spoils of the enemy.

~William L. Marcy~

Three people marooned on a des...

Three people marooned on a desert island would soon reinvent politics.

~Mason Cooley~

Those who make peaceful revolu...

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

~John F. Kennedy~

This proves what a purifying e...

This proves what a purifying effect women would have on politics.

~Nellie McClung~

This organization (United Nati...

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~

They pick a president, and the...

They pick a president, and then for four years they pick on him.

~Adlai Stevenson~

There is no worse heresy than ...

There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.

~Lord Acton~

There is no excitement anywher...

There is no excitement anywhere in the world, short of war, to match the excitement of the American presidential campaign.

~Theodore White~