Isaac Hill Bromley Quotes

Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions, and consequently of no use to a good king or a good ministry; for which reason Courts are so overrun with politics.

Washington is politics! Somehow if people have political objectives, then those objectives are automatically disqualified? If that's the case, the Democrats have no business being legitimized about anything because everything they do is political.

I think to be in politics you have to have the taste for blood on that.

Lee Atwater [Republican National Committee Chairman] saw politics as a cutthroat game and didn't mind holding the blade.

Political organizations are formed to keep the powerful in power.

When dealing with American politics, you try to follow the money, and that's where it leads you. It doesn't take you to the electoral college or to Princeton. It takes you down the darker alleys of American life.

The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.

I think that people like Bloomberg, they're complete thugs. No question about it. But on the other hand, it must be said that they are politically savvy. They don't get into those positions of power - in the case of Bloomberg, both economic and political power - by being anybody's fool.

Two kinds of men generally best succeed in political life; men of no principle, but of great talent; and men of no talent, but of one principle - that of obedience to their superiors.

Anything's possible in politics.

If you lose, you can't lead. If you don't lead, you're irrelevant. Winning is what it's all about in politics.

The House of Representatives is ruled by a small group of old men.

…the Senate, a small body of egos…

A political machine is a united minority working against a divided majority.

... the trouble is, once you give in to a Voting Bloc, you become an addict. Just about every politician in New York is a political junkie.

I figured it out real early: How can you control the city unless you're the leader of your party?

The White House is another world. Expediency is everything.

Politics, as an end in itself, is a poor business to be in.

There are men who will hold power by any means rather than not hold it; and who would prefer a dissolution of the union to a continuance of an administration not of their own party. They will risk all ills ... rather than permit that happiness which is dispensed by other hands than their own.

I would feel insulted if you called me a politician. Politicians here in Africa do not have a good reputation.

A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him, he is a statesman.

Anyone who gets to the top in politics is a control freak.

A politician is an arse upon which every one has sat except a man.

There is something wrong with the way in which we make our decisions. The Government listen too much to the pollsters and the party managers. The trouble is that they are not even very good at politics, and they are entering too much into policy decisions. As a result, there is too much short-termism, too much reacting to events, and not enough shaping of events. We give the impression of being in office but not in power. Far too many important decisions are made for 36 hours' publicity.

Lyndon Johnson might have been the greatest vote counter ever in Congress, not because of his math skills but because of his unrivaled ability to read his fellow politicians and his utter ruthlessness in using what he knew.