Ancient Politician

Diplomacy: Lying in state. - Oliver Herford

Politics makes strange postmasters. - Kin Hubbard

Man is by nature a political animal. - Aristotle

Political correctness is tyranny with manners. - Charlton Heston

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts. - Henry Brooks Adams

The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia. - Otto von Bismarck

Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party. - Herbert Hoover

Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows - marriage does. - Groucho Marx

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under. - H L Mencken

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

Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. - Charles de Gaulle

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

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

The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I'd be honest. - Rodney Dangerfield

The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government. - Edward Abbey

Politics is the chloroform of the Irish people, or, rather the hashish. - Oliver St. John Gogarty

A filmmaker we almost lost to politics... my friend and colleague, Warren Beatty. - Jack Nicholson

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

Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it. - Laurence J Peter

I love Canada. I am from Canada. I will bash the Canadian government but never Canada. - Jason Priestley

The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor. - Samuel Butler

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

So, if we lie to the government, it's a felony.
But if they lie to us, it's politics. - Bill Murray

It's our experience that political leaders don't always mean the opposite of what they say. - Abba Eban

I must study politics and war that my sons may have the liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. - John Adams

Politics: Poli, a Latin word meaning "many"; and tics, meaning "bloodsucking creatures." - Robin Williams

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. - John Kenneth Galbraith

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand. - Milton Friedman

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

The only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in keeping their money in their own pockets. - Lysander Spooner

Harold MacMillan is a very intelligent man, who, as so often happens in politics, achieved supreme power too late. - Malcolm Muggeridge

Taxpayer - someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination. - Ronald Reagan

I have certain rules I live by. My first rule: I don't believe anything the government tells me. Nothing. Zero. - George Carlin

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

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

Every country must be absolutely free to adopt the type of economic, political and social system that it considers convenient. - Fidel Castro

It was revealed in a government survey published today that the Prime Minister is doing the work of two men, Laurel and Hardy. - Ronnie Corbett

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other. - Voltaire

A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life. - John Stuart Mill

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