The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.

Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.

The good news is that, according to the Obama administration, the rich will pay for everything. The bad news is that, according to the Obama administration, you're rich.

Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.

If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.

If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today.

If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers.