Political Floor

Diplomacy: Lying in state. - Oliver Herford

All politics is applesauce. - Will Rogers

Good government is good politics. - Richard J. Daley

Politics makes strange red-fellows. - Will Rogers

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

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

Intelligence has nothing to do with politics. - Londo Molari

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

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

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun. - R Buckminster Fuller

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

The Golden Rule has no place in a political campaign. - John J Ingalls

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

Self-government won't work without self-discipline. - Paul Harvey

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

Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest thing in the nicest way. - Isaac Goldberg

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

Politics is a profession where the paths of glory lead but to the gravy. - Billy Boy Franklin

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

The police force cannot be completely independent of the executive government. - P Chidambaram

A filmmaker we almost lost to politics... my friend and colleague, Warren Beatty. - Jack Nicholson

A good politician, under democracy, is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar. - H L Mencken

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

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

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it. - Mark Twain

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

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

People want change but not too much change. Finding that balance is tricky for every politician. - Eleanor Clift

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

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

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

Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds. - John P Barlow

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

Harold MacMillan is a very intelligent man, who, as so often happens in politics, achieved supreme power too late. - Malcolm Muggeridge

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

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

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

Judge: 1. A law student who marks his own examination papers; 2. A lawyer who once knew a politician; 3. A man in a trying position. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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