One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President.

In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it.

Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself.

Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.

I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day.