Failure To Launch

In politics nothing is contemptible. - Benjamin Disraeli

In politics the middle way is none at all. - John Adams

Every country has the government it deserves. - Joseph de Maistre

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

A government of law is a government of lawyers. - Saying

Remember that failure is an event, not a person. - Zig Ziglar

Most bad government results from too much government. - Thomas Jefferson

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance. - Robert Frost

If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style. - Quentin Crisp

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

You can't get rich in politics unless you're a crook. - Harry S Truman

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under. - H L Mencken

A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top. - James Reston

Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. - Charles de Gaulle

Success doesn't make you and failure doesn't break you. - Zig Ziglar

World War II was the last government program that really worked. - George Will

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

You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure. - Zig Ziglar

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

A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. - George Bernard Shaw

Either the government will be given to us or we shall seize it by marching on Rome. - Benito Mussolini

My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight. - John F Kennedy

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

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

Politics, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong. - Richard Armour

A diplomat is someone who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you will look forward to the trip. - Caskie Stinnett

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

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 who fears failure limits his activities. Failure is only the opportunity to more intelligently begin again. - Henry Ford

Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you. - Pericles (430 B.C.)

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

Taxpayer - someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination. - Ronald Reagan

The guy who takes a chance, who walks the line between the known and unknown, who is unafraid of failure, will succeed. - Gordon Parks

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure, which is: Try to please everybody. - Herbert Bayard Swope

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

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

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

We learn wisdom from failure much more than success. We often discover what we will do, by finding out what we will not do. - Samuel Smiles

Failure is not a single cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day. - Jim Rohn

Our ancestors believed in magic, prayers, trickery, browbeating and bullying. I think it would be fair to sum that up as 'Irish politics'. - Flann O'Brien