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All politics is applesauce. - Will Rogers

Politics is an inexact science. - Otto von Bismarck

Politics is the art of the possible. - Otto von Bismarck

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

Crime does not pay as well as politics. - Alfred E. Newman

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

Intelligence has nothing to do with politics. - Londo Molari

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

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

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

In politics, a lie unanswered becomes truth within 24 hours. - Willie Brown

Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Ultimatum: In diplomacy, a last demand before resorting to concessions - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Government of the people, by the people, and for the pursuit of happiness. - Archie Bunker

Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure. - Bertrand Russell

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

Diplomacy is the art of saying, "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock. - Will Rogers

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

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

He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career. - George Bernard Shaw

Good thing we've still got politics in Texas - finest form of free entertainment ever invented. - Molly Ivins

The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare. - Daniel P Moynihan

Get thee glass eyes;
And, like a scurvy politician, seem
To see the things thou dost not. - William Shakespeare

A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have. - Thomas Jefferson

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

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.)

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

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

The business of government is to keep the government out of business - that is, unless business needs government aid. - Will Rogers

It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen. - George MacDonald

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

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

In Mexico, an air-conditioner is called a "politician" because it makes a lot of noise but doesn't work very well. - Len Deighton

Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. - Ronald Reagan

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

In politics, as in womanizing, failure is decisive. It sheds its retrospective gloom on earlier endeavor which at the time seemed full of promise. - Malcolm Muggeridge

Regarded simply as a politician, and compared with the other leading political figures of our time, how clean a smell he has managed to leave behind. - Mahatma Gandhi

Political correctness is about denial, usually in the weasel circumlocutory jargon which distorts and evades and seldom stands up to honest analysis. - George M Fraser