When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.

Half a truth is better than no politics.

Consul - in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country.

Politics is a profession a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.

Establishing lasting peace is the work of education all politics can do is keep us out of war.