Back Of The Line, Harry

All politics is local. - Thomas P O'Neil

All politics is applesauce. - Will Rogers

Politics makes strange postmasters. - Kin Hubbard

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

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

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

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts. - Henry Brooks Adams

Politics is just show business for ugly people. - Jay Leno

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

The art of government is the organization of idolatry. - George Bernard Shaw

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

Self-government won't work without self-discipline. - Paul Harvey

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

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

One year they wanted to make me poster boy - for birth control. - Rodney Dangerfield

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

There is no cure for birth and death, save to enjoy the interval. - George Santayana

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

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love. - Stendhal

Government can't give us anything without depriving us of something else. - Henry Hazlitt

The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop. - P.J. O'Rourke

At the base and birth of every successful venture you will find an enthusiast. - Winston Churchill

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

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

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

It's our experience that political leaders don't always mean the opposite of what they say. - Abba Eban

I must study politics and war that my sons may have the liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. - John Adams

Why pay money to have your family tree traced; go into politics and your opponents will do it for you. - Unknown

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

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

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

What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those? - Gilbert Highet

Very few of these panic-mongers have any personal knowledge of the countries that are already under blackshirt government. - Lord Rothermere

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

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

The climate, the economic situation, rising birth rates; none of these things give me a lot of hope or reason to be optimistic. - David Attenborough

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

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable. - Carl Jung

Being a dad isn't just about eating a huge bag of gummy bears as your wife gives birth. It means being comfortable with the word 'hero.' - Ryan Reynolds