"Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of congress......but I repeat myself."
-- Mark Twain

"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter."
-- Winston Churchill

"The government who robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul."
-- George Bernard Shaw

"We could certainly slow the aging process down if it had to work its way through Congress."
-- Will Rogers

"A statesman is a politician who's been dead for fifteen years."
-- Harry S Truman

"Anyone that wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office."
-- David Broder

"When they call the roll in the Senate, the senators do not know whether to answer present or not guilty."
-- Theodore Roosevelt

"My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician. And to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference."
-- Harry S. Truman

"An honest politician is one who, when bought, stays bought."
--Simon Cameron, Lincoln's first Secretary of War

"Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied."
--Otto von Bismarck