Political Promise Transporter

There is no gambling like politics. - Benjamin Disraeli

In politics nothing is contemptible. - Benjamin Disraeli

Everybody knows politics is a contact sport. - Barrack Obama

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

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts. - Henry Brooks Adams

If men were angels, no government would be necessary. - James Madison

The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars. - William Westmoreland

An honest politician is one who when he's bought stays bought. - Simon Cameron

The politicians were talking themselves red, white and blue in the face. - Clare Boothe Luce

Politics is a profession where the paths of glory lead but to the gravy. - Billy Boy Franklin

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

Leadership is at its best making promises to the people... and then keeping them. - Unknown

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

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear. - John Lennon

Officialese: A government language where you can understand the words, but not the sentences - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

Politics, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong. - Richard Armour

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

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. - Frederic Bastiat

The best leaders identify what promises they are being held to, manage expectations, and honor those promises. - Bob Anderson

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

I won't eat anything that has intelligent life, but I would gladly eat a network executive or a politician. - Marty Feldman

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

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

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

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

Calculating how much carbon is absorbed by which forests and farms is a tricky task, especially when politicians do it. - Donella Meadows

If the government was as afraid of disturbing the consumer as it is of disturbing business, this would be some democracy. - Kin Hubbard

Very few of these panic-mongers have any personal knowledge of the countries that are already under blackshirt government. - Lord Rothermere

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

Love would never be a promise of a rose garden unless it is showered with light of faith, water of sincerity and air of passion. - Unknown

Politicians get their power too late, and I think that he has inherited an impossible situation in which he is ill-equipped to deal. - Malcolm Muggeridge

When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale. - John W. Gardner

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

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

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

Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don't vote. - Paul Harvey

Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments. - Isaac Asimov