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All politics is applesauce. - Will Rogers

Politics is an inexact science. - Otto von Bismarck

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

Political correctness is tyranny with manners. - Charlton Heston

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

A politician... one that would circumvent God. - William Shakespeare

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

More honoured in the breach than the observance. - William Shakespeare

The problem with political jokes is they get elected. - Henry Cate, VII

A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves. - Bertrand de Jouvenel

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

I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent. - Edith Sitwell

A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country. - Tex Guinan

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

In politics, madame, you need two things: friends, but above all an enemy. - Brian Mulroney

I do have a political agenda. It's to have as few regulations as possible. - Dan Quayle

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

Everyone wants to eat at the government's table, but nobody wants to do the dishes. - Werner Finck

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

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

A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them. - P.J. O'Rourke

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

Ex-Presidents of the United States get state subsidies. Not so in Russia. You get no government support. - Mikhail Gorbachev

I don't look for much to come out of government ownership as long as we have Democrats and Republicans. - Kin Hubbard

I won't eat anything that has intelligent life, but I would gladly eat a network executive or a politician. - Marty Feldman

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.)

At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else. - Shirley Chisholm

Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds. - Thurgood Marshall

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

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

Canada's political parties spend a few years in opposition and then govern as if it's permanent payback time. - Bob Rae

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men. - Plato

We're at a point in history where everyone needs to pay attention to politics. Too much is at stake for us to be apathetic. - Kevin Costner

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

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

NEED now means wanting someone else's money. GREED means wanting to keep your own. COMPASSION is when a politician arranges the transfer. - Joseph Sobran

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

Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the Government take care of him, better take a closer look at the American Indian. - Henry Ford

Being in politics is like being a football coach; you have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important. - Eugene McCarthy

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