Politics doesn’t run on reason, it runs on emotion. People vote their instincts and backfill arguments to fit them.
Not to be crude about it, but politics is what comes out the a**hole.[to Shiv]
I won’t allow you to destroy the Republican Party.[Jim Bragg]Maybe it needs a little destroying.[Ellen Waverly]
Just remember why you took this job to begin with. The way to Mars isn’t through Houston…[Larry Wilson]It’s through Washington.[Ellen Waverly]
It’s easy to forget one’s ideals when there’s a pile of money or political spoils on the table, because we each have things we want, and there never seems to be enough to pay for them.
In politics, stature is everything.
If you control the drugs, you control the politics.
I find war preferable to politics. At least in war, you know your enemies.
I don’t need a nuclear solution. I need a political one.
Honesty is always the best policy.
First rule of politics, kiddo: never let the truth get in the way of a good story.[to Jimmy]
[about the murder of a political opponent]And did you… order his death?[Gaius Octavian]I did not know he existed until he didn’t.[Gaius Julius Caesar]
