Dirty Politics Quotes

Politicians are like diapers; they need to be changed often and for the same reason

Politics is a dirty business for a gentleman ...

Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.

I'm not the inventor of negative campaigning, but I'm an ardent practitioner.

... he [Thomas E. Dewey] is a political streetwalker accosting men with "come home with me dear.

Entering politics is a fate worse than death.

Government is like an undershirt. If you don't change it frequently, it begins to stink.

Super Tuesday is the day on which most states hold their primaries. Its darker partner is Dirty Tricks Thursday: the Thursday before an election when candidates release scandalous stories to garner bad publicity for their opponent: the timing means the accused will have little time to refute the allegations.

We've seen a lot of dirty politics in Ireland.

He who slings mud generally loses ground.

Honest Graft

It wouldn’t hurt to remind the voters of what scoundrels your opponents are and to smear them at every opportunity….

Rahm Emanuel is son of the devil's spawn. He is an individual who would sell his mother to get a vote. He would strap his children to the front end of a steam locomotive.

I've been able to see some very impressive people that are in politics, and I've been able to see a lot more people that are much less impressive that I don't know if I'd want to spend my life working with. When I see sort of how the sausage is made, it's not very pretty.

Politics is so corrupt that even the dishonest people get fucked.

The Republican I ran against, at the end of the campaign, had decided that I was "a friend of terrorists" and "a friend of pedophiles." That's the kind of crap they came out with. I expect that's the kind of crap they'll come out with again.

I see it all the time in politics. If a candidate gets caught in a lie, he quickly tries to change the subject by throwing more mud at his opponent. The mud keeps flying until some of the slanderous material sticks.

Anybody who doesn't know that politics is crime has got a few screws loose.

I'm not going to get down in the gutter with DeSantis and Trump - there's enough of that going on.

The revolution is an amalgam of former Party functionaries, quasi- democrats, KGB officers, and black-market wheeler-dealers, who are standing in power now and have represented a dirty hybrid unseen in world history

In politics nothing is contemptible.

In a close election no one is going to pass up an opportunity to mix politics with a little sex.

Sometimes in politics one must duel with skunks, but no one should be fool enough to let the skunks choose the weapons.

I would as soon go to live in a pen in a stockyard as into American politics

I never saw the man yet that came out of politics as clean as he went into 'em.