The Art Of Politics

Vote early and vote often. - Al Capone

Diplomacy: Lying in state. - Oliver Herford

Erection: When Japanese go to vote. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

Under every stone lurks a politician. - Aristophanes

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

I am a Marxist - of the Groucho tendency. - Unknown

Political correctness is tyranny with manners. - Charlton Heston

Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you. - Ralph Nader

Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows - marriage does. - Groucho Marx

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

It's a terrible shame that politics has become show business. - Sydney Pollack

An honest politician is one who when he's bought stays bought. - Simon Cameron

The most important political office is that of the private citizen. - Louis D. Brandeis

The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I'd be honest. - Rodney Dangerfield

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

Politics is the chloroform of the Irish people, or, rather the hashish. - Oliver St. John Gogarty

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

Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing. - Bernard Baruch

The short memories of American voters is what keeps our politicians in office. - Will Rogers

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

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

In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man; if you want anything done, ask a woman. - Margaret Thatcher

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

The difference between death and taxes is death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets. - Will Rogers

So, if we lie to the government, it's a felony.
But if they lie to us, it's politics. - Bill Murray

One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government. - Donald Trump

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

Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism. - Claude McKay

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

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

One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are. - Cal Thomas

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

The most dangerous person of the world is a member of the United States Congress just home from a three-day fact-finding trip. - Johnny Isakson

In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress. - John Adams

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

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

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

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

Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments. - Isaac Asimov