“The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.”– Reinhold Niebuhr Related Quotes “Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.”– Thomas Jefferson “…Today the invisible hand seems confused and indecisive…Ideology and rhetoric increasingly guide policy decision, often bearing little relationship to factual reality. And the America we once knew seems divided and angry, defiantly embracing unreason.”— Shawn Lawrence Otto “I played by the rules of politics as I found them.”– Richard M. Nixon