Political Floor

All politics is applesauce. - Will Rogers

Good government is good politics. - Richard J. Daley

Politics have no relation to morals. - Niccolo Machiavelli

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

Everybody knows politics is a contact sport. - Barrack Obama

Political correctness is tyranny with manners. - Charlton Heston

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

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

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

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

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

The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world. - Reinhold Niebuhr

For every action, there is an equal and opposite government program. - Bob Wells

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

A politician is a man who approaches every problem with an open mouth. - Adlai Stevenson

To lodge all power in one party and keep it there is to insure bad government. - Mark Twain

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

Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated. - Will Rogers

I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government. - Woody Allen

Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks. - Doug Larson

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

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

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

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

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

If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner. - H L Mencken

It is a win-win for the American people, an idea no conventional politician would have the guts to put forward. - Donald Trump

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. - Plato

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

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

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

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

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

A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life. - John Stuart Mill

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

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