I am invariably of the politics of the people at whose table I sit, or beneath whose roof I sleep.

The vice presidency isn’t worth a pitcher of warm piss.

He may be a patriot for Austria, but the question is whether he is a patriot for me.

I’m president of the United States, and I’m not going to eat any more broccoli!

What experience and history teach is this—that nations and governments have never learned anything from history or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it.

On the loftiest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own rump.

A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always count on the support of Paul.

I work for a government I despise for ends I think criminal.

Do that which consists in taking no action, and order will prevail.

The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.

An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.

Politics, n. A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.

Every country has the government it deserves.