The Art Of Politics

Politics is an inexact science. - Otto von Bismarck

There is no gambling like politics. - Benjamin Disraeli

In politics nothing is contemptible. - Benjamin Disraeli

Every country has the government it deserves. - Joseph de Maistre

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

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

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

Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote. - George Jean Nathan

Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party. - Herbert Hoover

Dilemma: A politician trying to save both his faces at once - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

War has rules, mud wrestling has rules - politics has no rules. - Ross Perot

Commitments the voters don’t know about can't hurt you. - Ogden Nash

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

I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat. - Will Rogers

An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought. - Simon Cameron

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

Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least. - Robert Byrne

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

Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for. - Will Rogers

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

American Politics: A form of socialism for the rich, including the politicians. - Gregory Nunn

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

I love Canada. I am from Canada. I will bash the Canadian government but never Canada. - Jason Priestley

I think it's an absolute disaster that Australia, the government, allowed kangaroo culling. - Steve Irwin

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

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one. - Thomas Paine

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

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

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote. - Benjamin Franklin

It's especially hard if the government is not providing services, or is even conducting ethnic cleansing against you. - Paul Harvey

One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President. - Lyndon B. Johnson

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend. - Thomas Jefferson

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

We're at a point in history where everyone needs to pay attention to politics. Too much is at stake for us to be apathetic. - Kevin Costner

The nine most terrifying words in the English language are,
"I'm from the government and I'm here to help." - Ronald Reagan

In Mexico, an air-conditioner is called a "politician" because it makes a lot of noise but doesn't work very well. - Len Deighton

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

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