A week is a long time in politics

A week is a long time in politics.

Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.

Never is an awfully long time.

It's only forever, not long at all

All political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure, because that is the nature of politics and of human affairs.

Over the years, I have seen too many politicians ruin their careers because they could not accept defeat graciously.

Liberty has never yet lasted long in a democracy; nor has it ever ended in any thing better than despotism.

In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.

I was myself so smitten in public opinion that it was the almost universal view that my political life was at last ended.

Nothing is so common as to see a political upheaval pass practically unnoticed merely because the names of the leaders and their parties remain the same.

'Because it's there' could never be enough of an explanation for entering politics. ...

Although it might be that we can't expect change overnight, there was really a rapid shift in the way we view politics.

All political careers are a rollercoaster.