Ancient Politician

All politics is local. - Thomas P O'Neil

All politics is applesauce. - Will Rogers

Politics makes strange red-fellows. - Will Rogers

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

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

All government, of course, is against liberty. - H L Mencken

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

Political War: One in which everyone shoots from the lip - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity. - Albert Einstein

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

A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top. - James Reston

World War II was the last government program that really worked. - George Will

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

An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought. - Simon Cameron

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

University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. - Henry Kissinger

Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will. - Mikhail Bakunin

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

The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy. - Theodore White

Being a politician is a poor profession. Being a public servant is a noble one. - Herbert C Hoover

A good politician, under democracy, is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar. - H L Mencken

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power. - Aldous Huxley

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

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

A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have. - Thomas Jefferson

I don't look for much to come out of government ownership as long as we have Democrats and Republicans. - Kin Hubbard

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

If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner. - H L Mencken

Demagogue: A politician who can rock the boat and persuade everyone else that they're in a terrible storm - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

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

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men. - Plato

We're at a point in history where everyone needs to pay attention to politics. Too much is at stake for us to be apathetic. - Kevin Costner

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

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

In a world of complex threats, our security and leadership depends on all elements of our power - including strong and principled diplomacy. - Barack Obama

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my country. I make up for lost time when I am at home. - Winston Churchill