"Money is the mother's milk of politics." -- Jesse Marvin Unruh [1922-1987]

"An honest politician is one who when he's brought stays bought." -- Simon Cameron [1799-1889]

"Politicians are a set of men who have interests aside from the interests of the people, and who, to say the most of them, are, taken as a mass, at least one long step removed from honest men. I say this with the greater freedom because, being a politician, myself, none can read it as personal." -- Abraham Lincoln [1809-1865]

Advise and Consent [1959]
by Allen Drury


All the King's Men [1949]
by Robert Penn Warren


American Hero [1993]
by Larry Beinhart


Democracy [1879]
by Henry Adams


The Gilded Age [1873]
by Mark Twain (a.k.a. Samuel Clemens)


Mackerel by Moonlight [1998]
by William Weld


Seven Days in May [1962]
by Fletcher Knebel and Charles W. Bailey II


The Big Ugly [1999]
by William Weld


The Running Mate [2000]
by Joe Klein


A Thing of State [1998]
by Allen Drury


A Time to Run [2005]
by Barbara Boxer