Community Quote by Edmund Burke

In politics you learn to always smile.

— Eliot Spitzer

I love doing impressions of politicians because the task is always to imagine the private lives of these people whose job it is to…

— Kate McKinnon

They say that the Soviet delegates smile. That smile is genuine. It is not artificial. We wish to live in peace, tranquility. But if…

— Nikita Khrushchev

For members who have only ever been in government, the negativity and aggressiveness of the opposition is easy to caricature.

— Jason Kenney

There are few things more amusing in the world of politics than watching moderate Republicans charging to the right in pursuit of greater glory.

— Mario Cuomo

The Democrats can engage in the most reprehensible, mean-spirited, vile, vicious verbal attacks known in politics, and they get praised for it.

— Rush Limbaugh

Democrats consider the people as the safest depository of power in the last resort; they cherish them, therefore, and wish to leave in them…

— Thomas Jefferson

Earth to Democrats: Displaying contempt for the American people when you are being paid by those people to serve their interests is generally not…

— Monica Crowley

When I was in office I expressed admiration and respect and even affection for Republicans that I knew and liked and cared about, and…

— William J. Clinton

If the chief party, whether it be the people, or the army, or the nobility, which you think most useful and of most consequence…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

I was raised as a Christian, where all you're taught is to be humble, even if you did something right. Politics is the complete…

— Grace Meng

The smile of a politician is strong and friendly, but noncommittal.

— Mason Cooley