“I do not say when I became a politician, for that I never was.”
—JOHN ADAMS
“Is it possible to be anything in this country without being a politician?”
—MARTIN VAN BUREN
“The most successful politician is he who says what everybody is thinking most often and in the loudest voice.”
—THEODORE ROOSEVELT
“Politics, when I am in it, makes me sick.”
—WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT
“You hear politics until you wish that both parties were smothered in their own gas.”
—WOODROW WILSON
“If you think too much about being reelected, it is very difficult to be worth reelecting.”
—WOODROW WILSON
“The great curse of public life is that you are not allowed to say all the things you think.”
—WOODROW WILSON
“Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.”
—JOHN F. KENNEDY
“I seldom think of politics more than 18 hours a day.”
—LYNDON B. JOHNSON
“It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.”
—RICHARD NIXON
“Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close.”
—RONALD REAGAN
“If you’re sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and principles, come and join this campaign.”
—GEORGE W. BUSH