Im always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians. – John F. Kennedy

My deepest feeling about politicians is that they are dangerous lunatics to be avoided when possible and carefully humored; people, above all, to whom one must never tell the truth. – W. H. Auden

When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy. – Charles de Secondat