"Politics is a dirty business" (1873)

Wed Aug 10 13:12:00 UTC 2005

POLITICS + DIRTY BUSINESS--30,000 Google hits, 2,540 Google Groups  hits
...
Who said this?
...
...
(GOOGLE)
...
_Politics Quotes, Literary Quotes about Politics -  LitQuotes_ 
(http://www.litquotes.com/quote_topic_resp.php?QuoteType=Politics&Amazon=Politics) 
"Politics is a dirty  business for a gentleman . . . " Booth Tarkington ·
The  Magnificent Ambersons · Email Quote. Copyright 2005 · Perry Internet  ...
www.litquotes.com/  quote_topic_resp.php?QuoteType=Politics&Amazon=Politics - 
13k - _Cached_ 
(http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:7k0wr-Zvk7IJ:www.litquotes.com/quote_topic_resp.php?QuoteType=Politics&Amazon=Politics+politics+"dirty+
business"+gentleman&hl=en&ie=UTF-8)  - _Similar pages_ 
(http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&q=related:www.litquotes.com/quote_topic_resp.php?Quo
teType=Politics&Amazon=Politics)  
...
...
(NEWSPAPERARCHIVE)
...
     _Defiance Democrat_ (http://www.n
ewspaperarchive.com/Viewer.aspx?img=n9tPhCVbEnaKID/6NLMW2poKiISXoOV3/HoXch8OfGdwUONAFOFcSQ==)  _Thursday, January 20, 
1876_ (http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Search.aspx?Search=politics+and+)  
_Defiance,_ 
(http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Search.aspx?Search=politics+and+"dirty+business"+AND+cityid:7195+AND+stateid:73+AND+range:1753-1896)   _Ohio_ 
(http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Search.aspx?Search=politics+and+"dirty+business"+A
ND+stateid:73+AND+range:1753-1896)   ...It is a low,  frivolous AND too often 
a DIRTY BUSINESS. There arc  country.....truth, AND nothing but the truth; in 
POLITICS  its great object is to elect..
...
     _The Cambridge Jeffersonian_ 
(http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Viewer.aspx?img=thiGuD36VKiKID/6NLMW2jBxLmv3+y7wMDVXoPcFoTBkHBOzXALz9g==)  _Thursday, 
August 07, 1884_ 
(http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Search.aspx?Search=politics+and+)  _Cambridge,_ 
(http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Search.aspx?Search=politics+and+"dirty+business"+AND+cityid:4174+AND+stateid:73+AND+range:1753-1896)   
_Ohio_ 
(http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Search.aspx?Search=politics+and+"dirty+business"+AND+stateid:73+AND+range:1753-1896)   ...at Governor  Cleve- lAND." 
'It is a DIRTY BUSINESS' said a  Kentucky Democrat.....dis- claimed any 
intention of talking  POLITICS, AND then launched out into  im..
...
     _The Perry Bulletin_ 
(http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Viewer.aspx?img=P9SpTvomPU+KID/6NLMW2jZDPlwZq+R3o/BoTc6C6Z5wUONAFOFcSQ==)  _Thursday, January 
02, 1896_ (http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Search.aspx?Search=politics+and+)  
_Perry,_ 
(http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Search.aspx?Search=politics+and+"dirty+business"+AND+cityid:22653+AND+stateid:39+AND+range:1753-1896)   _Iowa_ 
(http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Search.aspx?Search=politics+and+"dirty+business"+AN
D+stateid:39+AND+range:1753-1896)   ...wllloaso  Ills. POLITICS, my noy. Is a 
DIRTY BUSINESS because  the men who make.....also maico i a means of 
livelihood. POLITICS  has ration In- to tho hANDs of..
...
     _The Perry Bulletin_ 
(http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Viewer.aspx?img=P9SpTvomPU+KID/6NLMW2qS4xihD1ZKgLK8XHls294msIwra5yXi4A==)  _Thursday, May 21, 
1896_ (http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Search.aspx?Search=politics+and+)  
_Perry,_ 
(http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Search.aspx?Search=politics+and+"dirty+business"+AND+cityid:22653+AND+stateid:39+AND+range:1753-1896)   _Iowa_ 
(http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Search.aspx?Search=politics+and+"dirty+business"+AND+st
ateid:39+AND+range:1753-1896)   ...for a few  terms. If POLITICS is a DIRTY 
BUSINESS it...... some  men think.....ILat are Soft AND Fine in Texture AND  
Strikingly Stylish in rat- torn AND..
...
     _The Indiana Democrat_ 
(http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Viewer.aspx?img=wSCs6S0EhDCKID/6NLMW2hZld3YpBmReHIFxNRKIJ06d5XSGz6G6XQ==)  _Thursday, August 
27, 1896_ (http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Search.aspx?Search=politics+and+)  
_Indiana,_ 
(http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Search.aspx?Search=politics+and+"dirty+business"+AND+cityid:13805+AND+stateid:77+AND+range:1753-1896)   
_Pennsylvania_ 
(http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Search.aspx?Search=politics+and+"dirty+business"+AND+stateid:77+AND+range:1753-1896)    
...POLITICS. It is said that POLITICS is DIRTY  BUSINESS, if so, the Christ- 
ian.....party AND take an  activo part in POLITICS. Resolved, That suffrage 
should..
...
...
(MAKING OF AMERICA--MICHIGAN)

Title: Our  Letter-Bag
Publication Info.:  The Ladies' repository: a monthly periodical, devoted to 
literature, arts,  and religion. / Volume 11, Issue 6, June 1873, pp.469-471
Collection: Making  of America Journal Articles
Search results: 1 match in full text
_table  of contents_ 
(http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?type=proximity;ALLSELECTED=1;sid=46f1f20a43b908da9c7096d16835804b;xc=1;g=moagrp;rgn=full%
20text;q1=politics;op2=near;q2=dirty%20business;amt2=40;op3=near;amt3=40;c=moa
;c=moajrnl;view=toc;subview=detail;sort=occur;start=1;size=25;cc=moajrnl;node=
acg2248.2-11.006:31;idno=acg2248.2-11.006)  | _view  first page_ 
(http://www.hti.umich.edu/cg
i/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=moajrnl;cc=moajrnl;g=moagrp;xc=1;sid=46f1f20a43b908da9c7096d16835804b;q1=politics;q2=dirty%20business;op2=near;op3=
near;rgn=full%20text;amt2=40;amt3=40;idno=acg2248.2-11.006;view=image;seq=0479
)  | _add  to bookbag_ 
(javascript:popupBBagWindow('http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=moa;c=moajrnl;cc=moajrnl;g=moagrp;xc=1;sid=46f1f20a43b908
da9c7096d16835804b;q1=politics;q2=dirty%20business;op2=near;op3=near;rgn=full%
20text;amt2=40;amt3=40;bbidno=acg2248.2-11.006;bbc=moajrnl;bbaction=add', 
false)) 

_Our Letter-Bag, pp.469-471_ 
(http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=moajrnl;cc=moajrnl;g=moagrp;xc=1;sid=46f1f20a43b908da9c7096d16835804b;q1=
politics;q2=dirty%20business;op2=near;op3=near;rgn=full%20text;amt2=40;amt3=40
;idno=acg2248.2-11.006;view=image;seq=0479) 
_Page  469_ 
(http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=moajrnl;cc=moajrnl;g=moagrp;xc=1;sid=46f1f20a43b908da9c7096d16835804b;q1=politics;q2=dirty
%20business;op2=near;op3=near;rgn=full%20text;amt2=40;amt3=40;idno=acg2248.2-1
1.006;view=image;seq=0479)   - 1 term matching "politics", "dirty  business" 

"Then, politics is such dirty business," says our M. C., C. M., as he  
pocketed his extra five thousand dollars, "a man can not be too well paid  for 
it;"...