The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.
There is no private domain of a person's life that is not political, and there is no political issue that is not ultimately personal.
It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it.
If you're sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and principles, come and join this campaign.
If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.
Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom.
It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.
Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.
Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.
In the Bible it says they asked Jesus how many times you should forgive, and he said seventy times seven. Well, I want you all to know that I'm keeping a chart.
The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible.
If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.
You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.
Don't worry if they're Democrats or Republicans. Give them service and they'll become Democrats.
The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one's contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time.
Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule.
What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expect generally happens.
The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.
A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords. There are two distinct styles requisite: I intend, in the course of my career, if I have time, to give a specimen of both.
Oh, that lovely title, ex-president.
To say that a bad government must be established for fear of anarchy is really saying that we should kill ourselves for fear of dying.
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
All our rights are gradually eroded as government gets bigger.
You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.
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