"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."

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