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Politics is an inexact science. - Otto von Bismarck

I am not a politician, but a soldier. - Idi Amin

Voters want a fraud they can believe in. - Will Durst

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance. - Robert Frost

In plain Texas talk, it's 'do the right thing'. - Ross Perot

You can't get rich in politics unless you're a crook. - Harry S Truman

We have the best government in the world... that money can buy. - Mark Twain

I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together. - Gerald R. Ford

You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think. - Milton Berle

In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant. - Charles de Gaulle

For every action, there is an equal and opposite government program. - Bob Wells

I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat. - Will Rogers

A politician will do anything to keep his job - even become a patriot. - William Randolph

Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure. - Bertrand Russell

Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. - John Kenneth Galbraith

I do have a political agenda. It's to have as few regulations as possible. - Dan Quayle

Diplomacy is the art of saying, "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock. - Will Rogers

Personally, I'm against political jokes. Too often they get elected to office. - Henny Youngman

Either the government will be given to us or we shall seize it by marching on Rome. - Benito Mussolini

Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism. - Bill Moyers

Everyone wants to eat at the government's table, but nobody wants to do the dishes. - Werner Finck

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. - Winston Churchill

If a man's from Texas, he'll tell you. If he's not, why embarrass him by asking? - John Gunther

I think it's an absolute disaster that Australia, the government, allowed kangaroo culling. - Steve Irwin

What is the first part of politics? Education. The second? Education. And the third? Education. - Jules Michelet

The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare. - Daniel P Moynihan

When I make a vow to God, then I would suggest to you that's even stronger than a handshake in Texas. - Rick Perry

One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government. - Donald Trump

It is a win-win for the American people, an idea no conventional politician would have the guts to put forward. - Donald Trump

Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you. - Pericles (430 B.C.)

At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else. - Shirley Chisholm

Politics is the only business where doing nothing other than making the other guy look bad is an acceptable outcome. - Mark Warner

In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate. - Charles de Gaulle

The business of government is to keep the government out of business - that is, unless business needs government aid. - Will Rogers

What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those? - Gilbert Highet

I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress. - Ronald Reagan

I am quite sure now that often in matters concerning religion and politics, a man's reasoning powers are not above the monkeys. - Mark Twain

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. - Aristotle

NEED now means wanting someone else's money. GREED means wanting to keep your own. COMPASSION is when a politician arranges the transfer. - Joseph Sobran

If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep. - Will Rogers