(verb) To engage in political activity; politick.
"Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason."
"When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not Guilty'."
"Supreme excellence consists of breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting."
"The dead should not rule the living."
"One of the consequences of such notions as ‘entitlements’ is that people who have contributed nothing to society feel that society owes them something, apparently just for being nice enough to grace us with their presence."
"Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness."
"Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar."
"The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes."
"If politicians stopped meddling with things they don't understand, there would be a more drastic reduction in the size of government than anyone in either party advocates."
"Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe."
"Wisdom and good examples are necessary at this time to rescue the political machine from the impending storm."
"He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career."