Where there is politics or economics there is no morality.

It's like being at the kids' table at Thanksgiving - you can put your elbows on it you don't have to talk politics... no matter how old I get there's always a part of me that's sitting there.

There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling and waiting for traces of blood to appear in the water.

There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.

There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics none in which there is more need of good pilotage and of a single unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.

There is no gambling like politics.

Politics begin where the masses are not where there are thousands but where there are millions that is where serious politics begin.

Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.

There are no morals in politics there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.

When you are in any contest you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle this is politics this is anything.