Political campaigns are designedly made into emotional orgies which endeavor to distract attention from the real issues involved, and they actually paralyze what slight powers of cerebration man can normally muster. – James Harvey Robinson, The Human Comedy, 1937

Politicians and diapers should be changed frequently and all for the same reason. – José Maria de Eça de Queiroz, translated from Portuguese

The problem with political jokes is they get elected. – Henry Cate, VII

The politicians were talking themselves red, white and blue in the face. – Clare Boothe Luce