Before Political Correctness

Politics makes strange postmasters. - Kin Hubbard

Man is by nature a political animal. - Aristotle

In politics the middle way is none at all. - John Adams

Political correctness is tyranny with manners. - Charlton Heston

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

We can get all the Indians we need at the reservoir. - Samuel Goldwyn

I'm Irish and Cherokee Indian. I can't faint. - Lynn Collins

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

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

A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves. - Bertrand de Jouvenel

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

If a relationship has to be a secret, you shouldn't be in it. - Unknown

The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government. - Edward Abbey

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

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

The result of bad communication is a disconnection between strategy and execution. - Chuck Martin

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. - George Bernard Shaw

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

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

As a man in a relationship, you have a simple choice: You can be right or you can be happy. - Ralphie May

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

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

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. - Frederic Bastiat

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

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

Canada's political parties spend a few years in opposition and then govern as if it's permanent payback time. - Bob Rae

What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those? - Gilbert Highet

I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other. - Napoleon Bonaparte

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

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy. - Groucho Marx

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

It was revealed in a government survey published today that the Prime Minister is doing the work of two men, Laurel and Hardy. - Ronnie Corbett

It's a funny relationship that makeup artists have. I always feel kind of like a dentist. People look at me and think of pain. - Rick Baker

Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people. - Joe Biden

Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the Government take care of him, better take a closer look at the American Indian. - Henry Ford

Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don't vote. - Paul Harvey

Our ancestors believed in magic, prayers, trickery, browbeating and bullying. I think it would be fair to sum that up as 'Irish politics'. - Flann O'Brien

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

Race only matters to a racist. All lives matter. If you have to put a color on it, then you are a racist. God only created one race - the human race. - Tom Wallace