A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won’t cross the street to vote in a national election.
A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they’re dead.
A man without a vote is a man without protection.
A political convention is just not a place where you come away with any trace of faith in human nature.
A politician is like quicksilver: if you try to put your finger on him, you find nothing underneath it.
A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.
A politician should have three hats. One for throwing into the ring, one for talking through, and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected.
A politician thinks of the next election – a statesman of the next generation.
A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life.
