"Politiikka on lupauksien taidetta. (V. A. Koskenniemi) (SSSK)"

"I am not a politician, and my other habits air good."

":A weapon that comes down as still As snowflakes fall upon the sod; But executes a freeman's will, As lightning does …"

"O, that estates, degrees, and offices Were not deriv'd corruptly, and that clear honour Were purchased by the merit o…"

"Who is the dark horse he has in his stable?"

"The gratitude of place expectants is a lively sense of future favours."

"Abstain from beans."

"A mugwump is a person educated beyond his intellect."

"Get thee glass eyes; And, like a scurvy politician, seem To see the things thou dost not."

"Persuade me not; I will make a Star-chamber matter of it."