Busted Politician

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

Man is by nature a political animal. - Aristotle

Politics have no relation to morals. - Niccolo Machiavelli

Everybody knows politics is a contact sport. - Barrack Obama

Intelligence has nothing to do with politics. - Londo Molari

From politics, it was an easy step to silence. - Jane Austen

Politics is the art of controlling your environment. - Hunter S. Thompson

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

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

All diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means. - Zhou Enlai

Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity. - Albert Einstein

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

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

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

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

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

For every action, there is an equal and opposite government program. - Bob Wells

Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week. - Will Rogers

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

The secret of political bargaining is to look more strong than what you really are. - Subhash Bose

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

Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism. - Bill Moyers

In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man; if you want anything done, ask a woman. - Margaret Thatcher

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

There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you. - Will Rogers

Officialese: A government language where you can understand the words, but not the sentences - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. - Frederic Bastiat

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

Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism. - Claude McKay

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

If the government was as afraid of disturbing the consumer as it is of disturbing business, this would be some democracy. - Kin Hubbard

I'm not interested in cutting the feet off my characters or stretching them to make them fit my certain political view. - Margaret Atwood

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

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

The nine most terrifying words in the English language are,
"I'm from the government and I'm here to help." - Ronald Reagan

A politician should have three hats. One for throwing into the ring, one for talking through, and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected. - Carl Sandburg

I have respect for Senator McCain. I used to like him a lot. I supported him. I raised a lot of money for his campaign against President Obama. - Donald Trump