Politician Training

All politics is applesauce. - Will Rogers

There is no gambling like politics. - Benjamin Disraeli

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

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts. - Henry Brooks Adams

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

Government is an endless pursuit of new ways to tax. - Unknown

Self-government won't work without self-discipline. - Paul Harvey

War has rules, mud wrestling has rules - politics has no rules. - Ross Perot

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

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

Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed. - Mao Zedong

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

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

The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop. - P.J. O'Rourke

I do have a political agenda. It's to have as few regulations as possible. - Dan Quayle

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

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

A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. - George Bernard Shaw

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

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business. - Tom Robbins

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

My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight. - John F Kennedy

Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks. - Doug Larson

He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career. - George Bernard Shaw

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

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

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

When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power. - Maggie Gallagher

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

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

Canada's political parties spend a few years in opposition and then govern as if it's permanent payback time. - Bob Rae

It's especially hard if the government is not providing services, or is even conducting ethnic cleansing against you. - Paul Harvey

It would be nice to spend billions on schools and roads, but right now that money is desperately needed for political ads. - Andy Borowitz

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

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

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

Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other. - Oscar Ameringer

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. - Aristotle

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