E. W. Howe Quotes

I detest politics, to be honest with you. It's a cesspool. And I don't think I would fare well in that cesspool because I don't believe in political correctness and I certainly don't believe in dishonesty.

I did not resign from politics because of Bofors. I resigned because I do not know how to play petty politics. I did not know back then and I don't know now either.

A liberal doesn’t sell out to the special interests.

There is nothing more frightening to a political satirist than an honest administration.

To this hour, the great science and duty of politics is lowered by the petty leaven of small and personal advantage.

I'm very glad I'm not a politician. I think it's one step away from the gates of hell, being a politician. I really do. It's a nightmare.

I didn't -- I swear I didn't -- get into politics to feather my nest or feather my friends' nests.

This is a matter of public health. The public was sick and tired of DeLay and his corruption.

There is this concept of politics as a dirty game. It's a difficult game, but it doesn't have to be dirty. I think this is what we need to bring to politics. I think politics around the world has very often been captured by big interests - 'lobbies' they call them in the States.

Congress is full of good, decent, smart people who have devoted their lives to public service.

Too often government responds to the whispers of lobbyists before the cries of the people.

I ask you: turn a deaf ear to the special interests. Let politics stand down for a while. don't waste anytime thinking about future elections until we've done our jobs here.

Athletics carries its own set of truths, and those truths are diminished when manipulated by people with agendas.

When we have a Deputy Prime Minister who tells people not to drive cars but has two Jags himself, and where the Minister who tells people not to have two homes turns out to have nine himself no wonder the public believe politicians are hypocrites.

The hardest thing to do in politics is campaign as someone you aren't. People can spot an imposter from a mile away.

There is hardly a single person in the House of Commons worth painting; though many of them would be better for a little whitewashing.

It's hard to make corruption a partisan issue because voters are cynical about everybody in politics.

To expect integrity or honesty in a politician is like trying to buy fish at a produce market.

Anybody who deliberately tries to get himself elected to a public office is permanently disqualified from holding one.

I am the only public servant and the only Mexican President ever who has made his finances public from before, during, and after public service.

Surely we don’t want the President to lie, we don’t want our senators to lie, we don’t want our congressmen to lie. But sometimes they do.

Why is there so much resistance among people who work in the Government to the seemingly obvious fact that, in our democracy, if the Government lies, it will eventually get caught

I don't think that political history is full of a whole lot of tremendously honest people. I have never found any fault about that as far as Mr. Trump is concerned in my relationship with him.

I have gone from a proponent of campaign finance reform to a revolutionary during my time in public service.

Politics and self-interest have been so uniformly connected, that the world, from being so often deceived, has a right to be suspicious of public characters.