Politician Training

Politics is an inexact science. - Otto von Bismarck

A week is a long time in politics. - Harold Wilson

Politics is war by other measures. - Steve Bannon

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

Under every stone lurks a politician. - Aristophanes

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

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

Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you. - Ralph Nader

Most bad government results from too much government. - Thomas Jefferson

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

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

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

Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest thing in the nicest way. - Isaac Goldberg

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

The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world. - Reinhold Niebuhr

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

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

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

Every woman dreams of her own political career and her own place in life. - Raisa M. Gorbachev

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

American Politics: A form of socialism for the rich, including the politicians. - Gregory Nunn

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

That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves. - Thomas Jefferson

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. - Robert Frost

The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare. - Daniel P Moynihan

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

One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government. - Donald Trump

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

At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else. - Shirley Chisholm

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

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

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

The workers' and peasants' government proposes to all warring peoples... negotiations leading to a just, democratic peace. - Lenin

I am quite sure now that often in matters concerning religion and politics, a man's reasoning powers are not above the monkeys. - Mark Twain

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

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

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