I'll Be Back

Good government is good politics. - Richard J. Daley

There is no gambling like politics. - Benjamin Disraeli

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

Political correctness is tyranny with manners. - Charlton Heston

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts. - Henry Brooks Adams

I don't even know what street Canada is on. - Al Capone

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

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

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

We have the best government in the world... that money can buy. - Mark Twain

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

Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed. - Mao Zedong

I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. - Will Rogers

University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. - Henry Kissinger

As far as single payer, it works in Canada. It works incredibly well in Scotland. - Donald Trump

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

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business. - Tom Robbins

Canada is the only country in the world that knows how to live without an identity. - Marshall McLuhan

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. - Robert Frost

There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you. - Will Rogers

We don't come to Canada for our health. We can think of other ways of enjoying ourselves. - Prince Philip

Why is America the last best hope of Earth? What if it's Liechtenstein? Or, worse, Canada? - Sarah Vowell

Coming from Canada, being a writer and Jewish as well, I have impeccable paranoia credentials. - Mordecai Richler

I think every entrepreneur in Canada owes the next generation a road map of how to do it again. - Kevin O'Leary

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

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. - Frederic Bastiat

When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves. - George Pataki

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

I have a huge interest in hockey because I grew up in Canada, where it's kind of the law that you love hockey. - Matthew Perry

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

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

I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other. - Napoleon Bonaparte

Canada is a balloon-puncturing country. You are not really allowed to be an icon unless you also make an idiot of yourself. - Margaret Atwood

Every country must be absolutely free to adopt the type of economic, political and social system that it considers convenient. - Fidel Castro

If you're skinny and you can't play hockey in Canada, you aren't left with a lot of options. I was left with running. - Malcolm Gladwell

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

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

Canada is like an old cow. The West feeds it. Ontario and Quebec milk it. And you can well imagine what it's doing in the Maritimes. - Tommy Douglas

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

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my country. I make up for lost time when I am at home. - Winston Churchill