Best Fairy Tale

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

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

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

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

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

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory. - John Kenneth Galbraith

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

An honest man in politics shines more than he would elsewhere. - Mark Twain

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

There is no distinctly American criminal class - except Congress. - Mark Twain

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

I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat. - Will Rogers

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

We would all like to vote for the best man but he is never a candidate. - Kin Hubbard

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

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

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

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

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

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it. - Mark Twain

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

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

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

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

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

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

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. - Plato

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

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy. - Groucho Marx

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men. - Plato

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

Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten. - Neil Gaiman

Papers say: 'Congress is deadlocked and can't act.' I think that is the greatest blessing that could befall this country. - Will Rogers

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

If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales. - Albert Einstein

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

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

Being in politics is like being a football coach; you have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important. - Eugene McCarthy