Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.

Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.

I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.

In politics, your enemies can't hurt you, but your friends will kill you.

A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life.

Honesty in politics is much like oxygen. The higher up you go, the scarcer it becomes.