People at the top of the tree are those without qualifications to detain those at the bottom

Only those who do not seek power are qualified to hold it.

Bullshit may get you to the top, but it never lets you stay there!

You can't get rich in politics unless you're a crook. - Harry S. Truman

Politics and prostitution have to be the only jobs where inexperience is considered a virtue.

Anyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all.

That’s the trouble getting involved in politics, nobody wears a name badge!

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.

Those who lead from the top of the pyramid end up leading only those on top ...

Politicians are like warts on the body of society. And the only thing worse than warts are lawyers and lobbyists.

There is no qualification for government but virtue and wisdom, actual or presumptive.

No one will really understand politics until they understand that politicians are not trying to solve our problems. They are trying to solve their own problems — of which getting elected and re-elected are number one and number two. Whatever is number three is far behind.

The great difficulty with politics is, that there are no established principles.