A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life.

Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.

We have plenty of Confidence in this country, but we are a little short of good men to place our Confidence in. -Will Rogers

I offer my opponents a bargain: if they will stop telling lies about us, I will stop telling the truth about them.

Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others change their principles for the sake of their party.

The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy.

Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other.