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"When politics enter into municipal government, nothing resulting therefrom in the way of crimes and infamies is then incredible. It actually enables one to accept and believe the impossible."
"I've been to your mountains, I've been to your sea-side, and everywhere I went somebody's wanted a free ride."
"My shows aren't about trying to save some place, because I don't feel that's the right venue for it. That's my politics right there: Don't bring politics to my shows."
"The general will is always right."
"In politics people throw themselves, as on a sickbed, from one side to the other in the belief they will lie more comfortably."
"All great changes are irksome to the human mind, especially those which are attended with great dangers and uncertain effects."
"If the way to do good to my country were to render myself popular, I could easily do it. But extravagant popularity is not the road to public advantage."
"I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman."
"I do not belive that Washington should do for the people wha they can do for themselves through local and private effort."
"I am the one person who can truthfully say, I got my job through the New York Times."
"Will Rogers once said it is not the original investment in a Congressman that counts; it is the upkeep."
"Production does not consist in things laboriously made, but in things serviceably consumable; and the question for the nation is not how much labour it employs, but how much life it produces."
"Oh! the wisdom, the foresight and the hindsight and the rightsight and the leftsight, the northsight and the southsight, and the eastsight and the westsight that appeared in that august assembly."
"In a Republican district I was a Republican. In a Democratic district I was a Democrat. And in a doubtful district, I was Doubtful. But I was always for Erie."
"Politics makes strange post-masters."
"Now a lot of us are preachers, and all of us have our moral convictions and concerns, and so often have problems with power. There is nothing wrong with power if power is used correctly."
"Make no mistake about those who call themselves anti Zionist are anti Semitic."
"Isn't the basis of a democracy to send somebody to Washington to bring something back for you? ... It isn't?"
"I hate the Republicans and everything they stand for..."
"Senator, it has been reported that you have had illegal congress with your mother."
