Tolerance is an admirable intellectual gift; but it is of little worth in politics.

Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

A politician must have some scruples, a certain decency; he cannot smear himself in the mud for the sake of a high ideal.

There are numerous bugbears in the profession of politician. First, ordinary everyday life suffers. Second, there are many temptations to ruin you and those around you. And I suppose, third, and this is rarely discussed, people at the top generally have no friends.

My definition of a redundancy is an airbag in a politician's car.

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

I always wanted to get into politics, but I was never light enough to make the team.