"Let us not forget that we can never go farther than we can persuade at least half of the people to go."
                                     Hugh Gaitskell

"Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it."
                                     Edward F. Halifax

"Politics is a choice of enemas. You're gonna get it up the ass, no matter what you do."
                                     George V. Higgins

"I do not look for much to come out of government ownership as long as we have Democrats and Republicans."

"If there is anything a public servant hates to do it is something for the public."

"Now and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature."

                                     Kim Hubbard

"A political convention is not a place where you can come away with any trace of faith in human nature."
                                     Murray Kempton

"It is hard to say why politicians are called servants, unless it is because a good one is hard to find."
                                     Gerald F. Lieberman

"The two-party system has given this country the war of Lyndon Johnson, the Watergate of Nixon, and the incompetence of Carter. Saying we should keep the two-party system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life-rafts."
                                     Eugene McCarthy