Ancient Politician

Man is by nature a political animal. - Aristotle

In ancient Rome they killed Sid Caesar - Archie Bunker

Everybody knows politics is a contact sport. - Barrack Obama

Every country has the government it deserves. - Joseph de Maistre

Political correctness is tyranny with manners. - Charlton Heston

A politician... one that would circumvent God. - William Shakespeare

Politics is just show business for ugly people. - Jay Leno

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business. - Winston Churchill

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun. - R Buckminster Fuller

The problem with political jokes is they get elected. - Henry Cate, VII

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

Dilemma: A politician trying to save both his faces at once - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The most important political office is that of the private citizen. - Louis D. Brandeis

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

To deceive a diplomat speak the truth, he has no experience with it. - Greek Proverb

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

Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week. - Will Rogers

A politician is a man who approaches every problem with an open mouth. - Adlai Stevenson

Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for. - Will Rogers

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

To lodge all power in one party and keep it there is to insure bad government. - Mark Twain

No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power. - Jacob Bronowski

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

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

The fastest way for a politician to become an elder statesman is to lose an election. - Earl Wilson

Of all the tasks of government, the most basic is to protect its citizens from violence. - John Foster Dulles

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

In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man; if you want anything done, ask a woman. - Margaret Thatcher

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

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

Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless. - Milton Friedman

Frankly, I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry. - Joseph Heller

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

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

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

The nine most terrifying words in the English language are,
"I'm from the government and I'm here to help." - Ronald Reagan

Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. - Ronald Reagan

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

I once said to my father, when I was a boy, 'Dad we need a third political party.' He said to me, 'I'll settle for a second.' - Ralph Nader