Politics(235)

"A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader."
Harry S. Truman

"Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed."
Mao Tse-Tung

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

"Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself."
Mark Twain

"We have, I fear, confused power with greatness."
Stewart L. Udall

"Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them."
Paul Valery

"The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does."
Bill Vaughan

"Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half."
Gore Vidal

"Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates."
Gore Vidal

"Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so."
Gore Vidal