The Art Of Politics

Politics is an inexact science. - Otto von Bismarck

Politics makes strange red-fellows. - Will Rogers

There is no gambling like politics. - Benjamin Disraeli

Politics makes strange postmasters. - Kin Hubbard

Man is by nature a political animal. - Aristotle

I am not a politician, but a soldier. - Idi Amin

Voters want a fraud they can believe in. - Will Durst

In politics an absurdity is not a handicap. - Napoleon Bonaparte

A penny saved is a Congressional oversight. - Hal Luyah

Man is not free unless government is limited. - Ronald Reagan

Intelligence has nothing to do with politics. - Londo Molari

In Congress, it's all pork, all the time. - Jim Cooper

I never saw anything funnier than Texas politics. - Molly Ivins

Government is an endless pursuit of new ways to tax. - Unknown

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

If men were angels, no government would be necessary. - James Madison

Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets. - Ronald Reagan

In politics, a lie unanswered becomes truth within 24 hours. - Willie Brown

You can't get rich in politics unless you're a crook. - Harry S Truman

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

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

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power. - Aldous Huxley

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

I learned a long time ago in Hollywood that the only person I should vote for is myself. - Jack Nicholson

Whenever a fellow tells me he's bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me. - Harry S Truman

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

What right does Congress have to go around making laws just because they deem it necessary? - Marion Barry

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

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

It's our experience that political leaders don't always mean the opposite of what they say. - Abba Eban

The irony of the matter is that the future generations do not have a vote. In effect, we hold their proxy. - Charles J Hitch

The largest party in America is neither the Democrats nor the Republicans. It's the party of non-voters. - Robert Reich

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. - John Kenneth Galbraith

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

It would be nice to spend billions on schools and roads, but right now that money is desperately needed for political ads. - Andy Borowitz

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

Papers say: 'Congress is deadlocked and can't act.' I think that is the greatest blessing that could befall this country. - Will Rogers

Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other. - Oscar Ameringer