Busted Politician

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

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

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

If men were angels, no government would be necessary. - James Madison

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

To deceive a diplomat speak the truth, he has no experience with it. - Greek Proverb

The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government. - Edward Abbey

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

A politician will do anything to keep his job - even become a patriot. - William Randolph

Politics is a profession where the paths of glory lead but to the gravy. - Billy Boy Franklin

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

Being a politician is a poor profession. Being a public servant is a noble one. - Herbert C Hoover

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

The election is not very far off when a candidate can recognize you across the street. - Kin Hubbard

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. - P.J. O'Rourke

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

What is the first part of politics? Education. The second? Education. And the third? Education. - Jules Michelet

In Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination. - Irving Layton

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

Folks who don't know why America is the Land of Promise should be here during an election campaign. - Milton Berle

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

Politics: Poli, a Latin word meaning "many"; and tics, meaning "bloodsucking creatures." - Robin Williams

If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner. - H L Mencken

Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds. - John P Barlow

The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning. - Theodor Adorno

Harold MacMillan is a very intelligent man, who, as so often happens in politics, achieved supreme power too late. - Malcolm Muggeridge

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

Politics is the only business where doing nothing other than making the other guy look bad is an acceptable outcome. - Mark Warner

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

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

It was revealed in a government survey published today that the Prime Minister is doing the work of two men, Laurel and Hardy. - Ronnie Corbett

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

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other. - Voltaire

I am quite sure now that often in matters concerning religion and politics, a man's reasoning powers are not above the monkeys. - Mark Twain

A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life. - John Stuart Mill

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

In a world of complex threats, our security and leadership depends on all elements of our power - including strong and principled diplomacy. - Barack Obama

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