“Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.”– Otto von Bismarck Related Quotes “People meet in bars after work all over the world and talk about the great problems of life and death and the world and politics and they don’t take themselves seriously. They can do nothing else except chat about these things in bars after work.”– Whitfield Diffie “A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.”– Harry S. Truman “Here’s a very good rule of thumb in politics: losing begets losing.”– John Podhoretz