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Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.
The responsibility of a political party is in inverse proportion to its chances of getting office.
The conduct of a losing party never appears right: at least it can never possess the only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar judgements---success.
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Being right, in and of itself, is meaningless…we have to win. And we have to deliver.
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I stuffed their mouths with gold.
Tories, in short, are atrophied Englishmen, lacking certain moral and intellectual reflexes.
Scratch any American and underneath you’ll find an isolationist.
Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge where there is no river.
If you want to know the depth and meanness of Human Nature, you have got to be a prime minister running a general election.
…the best is often unattainable, and therefore the true legislator and statesman ought to be acquainted
