"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 …"

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

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

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

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

"Old politicians chew on wisdom past, And totter on in business to the last."

"Abstain from beans."

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