Best Fairy Tale

Politics makes strange postmasters. - Kin Hubbard

The ancient Egyptian kings, the fairy-ohs. - Archie Bunker

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

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business. - Winston Churchill

Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets. - Ronald Reagan

A diplomat is a man who thinks twice before he says nothing. - Unknown

We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy. - Martin L. Gross

Commitments the voters don’t know about can't hurt you. - Ogden Nash

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

To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy. - Will Durant

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

I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. - Will Rogers

My sheer existence is like a political act to a lot of people. It's not to me. - Grimes

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

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

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

Whenever a fellow tells me he's bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me. - Harry S Truman

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

People want change but not too much change. Finding that balance is tricky for every politician. - Eleanor Clift

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

Animals are like little children a bit. They're simple. They don't have politics driving them. - Annabelle Sabloff

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

When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves. - George Pataki

The largest party in America is neither the Democrats nor the Republicans. It's the party of non-voters. - Robert Reich

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

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

In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate. - Charles de Gaulle

One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are. - Cal Thomas

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

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote. - Benjamin Franklin

I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other. - Napoleon Bonaparte

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: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. - Ambrose Bierce

The most dangerous person of the world is a member of the United States Congress just home from a three-day fact-finding trip. - Johnny Isakson

A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election. - Bill Vaughan

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

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

I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters, okay? It's, like, incredible. - Donald Trump

I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity. - Eleanor Roosevelt

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