No man is fit to be a Senator... unless he is willing to surrender his political life for great principle.

Quote by Henry Fountain Ashurst

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Politics, where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be candidates themselves, teach a president how...

Politics, where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be candidates themselves, teach a president how...

We would all like to vote for the best man but he is never a...

We would all like to vote for the best man but he is never a...

Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.

A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.

We believe that to err is human. To blame it on someone else is politics.

We believe that to err is human. To blame it on someone else is politics.

MUGWUMP, n. In politics one afflicted with self-respect and addicted to the vice of independence....

MUGWUMP, n. In politics one afflicted with self-respect and addicted to the vice of independence....

Politicians are wonderful people as long as they stay away from things they don't understand,...

Politicians are wonderful people as long as they stay away from things they don't understand,...

Tenacity is a certain quality of the human hand in its relation to the coin...

Tenacity is a certain quality of the human hand in its relation to the coin...

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.

Equality is a disorganizing concept in so far as human relations mean order.

Equality is a disorganizing concept in so far as human relations mean order.

My movements to the chair of government will be accompanied by feelings not unlike those...

My movements to the chair of government will be accompanied by feelings not unlike those...

Academic politics is the most vicious and bitter form of politics, because the stakes are...

Academic politics is the most vicious and bitter form of politics, because the stakes are...

I actually did vote for the $87 billion before I voted against it.

I actually did vote for the $87 billion before I voted against it.

Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.

Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.

Thats just the nature of democracy. Sometimes pure politics enters into the rhetoric.

Thats just the nature of democracy. Sometimes pure politics enters into the rhetoric.

She (a woman politician) will be challenging a system that is still wedded to militarism...

She (a woman politician) will be challenging a system that is still wedded to militarism...

Politics is the gizzard of society, full of grit and gravel, and the two political...

Politics is the gizzard of society, full of grit and gravel, and the two political...

You would not tolerate for one moment the conduct in an individual that is commonplace...

You would not tolerate for one moment the conduct in an individual that is commonplace...