Quotes about Politics

Kings and such are just as funny as politicians.

Every Harvard class should have one Democrat to rescue it from oblivion.

I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.

Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

Run for office? No. I've slept with too many women, I've done too many drugs, and I've been to too many parties.

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

He sent his new press secretary, Sean Spicer—whose personal mantra would shortly become "You can't make this shit up"—to argue his case in a media moment that turned Spicer, quite a buttoned-down political professional, into a national joke, which he seemed destined to never recover from. To boot, the president blamed Spicer for not making the million phantom souls seem real.

Politics had seemed to become, even well before the age of Trump, a mortal affair. It was now zero-sum: When one side profited, another lost. One side's victory was another's death. The old notion that politics was a trader's game, an understanding that somebody else had something you wanted—a vote, goodwill, old-fashioned patronage—and that in the end the only issue was cost, had gone out of fashion. Now it was a battle between good and evil.

it confirmed Bannon's worst fear: Trump, in his true heart, was a marshmallow.

the week of July 24 was a head-slammer. First, it opened the next episode in what had become a comic-opera

Trump could bring Trumpism down...

We serve at the president's displeasure,