"One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President"

"Every artistic expression is either influenced by or adds something to politics"

"Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business"

"Living in Washington, you can't take politics too seriously. I draw the line at honesty. I have no time for political hacks who say things they don't believe because they get paid to"

"I think Ralph Nader is the biggest liar in American politics when he said it didn't matter who was president"

"The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf - it's almost a law"

"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary"

"It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf"

"I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend"

"In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate"

"Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions"