a 2013 study from Indiana University’s School of Journalism revealed that American journalists were nearly four times more likely to be Democrats than Republicans.

People in Congress are in a business; they’re trying to buy votes; they’re in the business of competing with one another to get elected. The same Congressman will vote for a different thing if he thinks that’s politically profitable. You don’t have to change Congress. People have a great misconception in this way. They think the way you solve things is by electing the right people. It’s nice to elect the right people but that isn’t the way you solve things. The way you solve things is by making it politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right things!

Extrapolating from the statistical growth of the legal profession, by the year 2035 every single person in the United States will be a lawyer, including newborn infants.

his congressional career almost before it began.

Politicians were mostly people who'd had too little morals and ethics to stay lawyers.

Every politician has a promising career. Unfortunately, most of them do not keep those promises.

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

constituents. Many of them greeted their Congressman

A representative of the United States must be of the age of twenty-five years; must have been seven years a citizen of the United States; must, at the time of his election, be an inhabitant of the State he is to represent; and, during the time of his service, must be in no office under the United States. Under these reasonable limitations, the door of this part of the federal government is open to merit of every description, whether native or adoptive, whether young or old, and without regard to poverty or wealth, or to any particular profession of religious faith.

La plupart des législateurs ont été des hommes bornés, que le hasard a mis à la tête des autres, et qui n'ont presque consulté que leurs préjugés et leurs fantaisies.

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

Equally worrying, and far less recognized, medicine has been slow to confront the very changes that it has been responsible for — or to apply the knowledge we have about how to make old age better. Although the elderly population is growing rapidly, the number of certified geriatricians the medical profession has put in practice has actually fallen in the United States by 25 percent between 1996 and 2010. Applications to training programs in adult primary care medicine have plummeted, while fields like plastic surgery and radiology receive applications in record numbers. Partly, this has to do with money — incomes in geriatrics and adult primary care are among the lowest in medicine. And partly, whether we admit it or not, a lot of doctors don’t like taking care of the elderly.

My point is, the Senate is filled not just with lawyers, but with old white men.

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.