Politician Training

Politics makes strange postmasters. - Kin Hubbard

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

In politics the middle way is none at all. - John Adams

Man is not free unless government is limited. - Ronald Reagan

Intelligence has nothing to do with politics. - Londo Molari

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

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 secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia. - Otto von Bismarck

There can be no wise politics without thought beforehand. - Annie Besant

A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves. - Bertrand de Jouvenel

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

I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together. - Gerald R. Ford

It's a terrible shame that politics has become show business. - Sydney Pollack

A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country. - Tex Guinan

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

In politics, madame, you need two things: friends, but above all an enemy. - Brian Mulroney

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

Diplomacy is the art of saying, "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock. - Will Rogers

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

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

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

So, if we lie to the government, it's a felony.
But if they lie to us, it's politics. - Bill Murray

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

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

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand. - Milton Friedman

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

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

I have certain rules I live by. My first rule: I don't believe anything the government tells me. Nothing. Zero. - George Carlin

The business of government is to keep the government out of business - that is, unless business needs government aid. - Will Rogers

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

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book. - Ronald Reagan

Every country must be absolutely free to adopt the type of economic, political and social system that it considers convenient. - Fidel Castro

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

Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people. - Joe Biden