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Politics is the art of the possible. - Otto von Bismarck

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

The gun is not out of Irish politics. - Ian Paisley

Crime does not pay as well as politics. - Alfred E. Newman

Man is not free unless government is limited. - Ronald Reagan

Talk is cheap... except when Congress does it. - Unknown

Parts of Texas look like Kansas with a goiter. - Unknown

I never vote for anyone; I always vote against. - WC Fields

A government of law is a government of lawyers. - Saying

I love a dog. He does nothing for political reasons. - Will Rogers

Government is an endless pursuit of new ways to tax. - Unknown

I'm not a politician. I've only got one face. - Brendan Behan

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory. - John Kenneth Galbraith

Calling a taxi in Texas is like calling a rabbi in Iraq. - Fran Lebowitz

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

War has rules, mud wrestling has rules - politics has no rules. - Ross Perot

Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed. - Mao Zedong

Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor. - Lady Bird Johnson

I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. - Will Rogers

You know the good part about all those executions in Texas? Fewer Texans. - George Carlin

Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing. - Bernard Baruch

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. - P.J. O'Rourke

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it. - Mark Twain

Some folks look at me and see a certain swagger, which in Texas is called 'walking.' - George W. Bush

In Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination. - Irving Layton

Why pay money to have your family tree traced; go into politics and your opponents will do it for you. - Unknown

A diplomat is someone who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you will look forward to the trip. - Caskie Stinnett

When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power. - Maggie Gallagher

The largest party in America is neither the Democrats nor the Republicans. It's the party of non-voters. - Robert Reich

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. - Plato

Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds. - Thurgood Marshall

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

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote. - Benjamin Franklin

It's especially hard if the government is not providing services, or is even conducting ethnic cleansing against you. - Paul Harvey

One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President. - Lyndon B. Johnson

When it comes to politics, I sit down on a sofa and grab some popcorn - or sometimes I crouch down in order not to get shot. - Sergey Galitsky

It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen. - George MacDonald

In Mexico, an air-conditioner is called a "politician" because it makes a lot of noise but doesn't work very well. - Len Deighton

A politician should have three hats. One for throwing into the ring, one for talking through, and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected. - Carl Sandburg

Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the Government take care of him, better take a closer look at the American Indian. - Henry Ford