Topics ยป Politicians and Politics
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What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.
No wonder that, when a political career is so precarious, men of worth and capacity hesitate to embrace it. They cannot afford to be thrown out of their life's course by a mere accident.
Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for believing practices. Politics has once again become religious.
A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself.
There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.
A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.
When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.