Political Backstabbing Quotes

Politics is ugly. Never doubt what small men will do for great power.

Here in Washington ruining people is considered sport

I think the world of politics is pretty sleazy.

This is not politics. This is garbage. And we are disgusted by it. To those who are departed who sought in some, quote, clever, unquote way, to tarnish the reputation of Tom Foley, I say, good riddance.

After … years of political life most men acquire enemies as ships acquire barnacles.

The only people who say worse things about politicians that reporters do are other politicians.

Politics has been very good to me. Politics can become, and often is, very brutal

Sometimes in politics, you think you've seen it all. Turns out I was wrong.

Politics is an ugly and thankless role.

I can remember - I don't want to identify the individual - but a very prominent Democrat, who compared looking at Carter and then Reagan, and then Bush, and observed that many of the people around Carter were totally disloyal to him.

I didn't like the way Andrew Peacock was not supported in 1984. He'd done well in that election; he deserved to continue. But by the end of '85, he was out.

A lot of nasty things were said about me in my own party about my unwillingness to demand the government shutdown.

I put myself and my company at the C.I.A.'s disposal for some very risky missions. But when it became politically expedient to do so, someone threw me under the bus.

I am doing my best to prevent the corporations and the Republican Party Machine making me the … candidate for the vice presidency in order to get rid of me here as governor.

But very often in politics we have the experience called up from my father when someone was trying to help him in the campaign: I can take care of my enemies, may the Good Lord save me from my friends.

The brutal reality of politics would be probably intolerable without drugs.

I was a partisan attack dog. There’s a lot of things that went down that I feel terrible about.

I've always said that in politics, your enemies can't hurt you, but your friends will kill you.

The Ministers are like a flotilla broken up by a hurricane, the stricken ships run into each other, crash together and if they reach the port there is always a leader to blame, at least so it is believed. If a good Minister for one moment takes his eye off the tiller he is lost; envy clings on to his wreckage and the paid hacks try and sink him to the bottom.

I wouldn't want to go into mainstream, Downing Street politics, though - it's just too cut-throat. I've got quite thin skin.

Pennsylvania is a very tough state; people don't last long in Pennsylvania politics.

Patrick Morrisey means nothing to me. He is a bootlicker. If shoe polish was poison, he'd be dead.

There is nothing likely to get you a bigger headline than attacking your own party.