Canadians Watching U.S. Politics

Freedom is from within. - Frank Lloyd Wright

Diplomacy: Lying in state. - Oliver Herford

A week is a long time in politics. - Harold Wilson

Politics is war by other measures. - Steve Bannon

Forgetfulness is a form of freedom. - Kahlil Gibran

In politics nothing is contemptible. - Benjamin Disraeli

Under every stone lurks a politician. - Aristophanes

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

Focus: What Canadian politicians lack. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

From politics, it was an easy step to silence. - Jane Austen

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts. - Henry Brooks Adams

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

Guns have only two enemies - rust and politicians. - Unknown

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

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

All diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means. - Zhou Enlai

Political War: One in which everyone shoots from the lip - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

There can be no wise politics without thought beforehand. - Annie Besant

The patriot's blood is the seed of Freedom's tree. - Thomas Campbell

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

We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy. - Martin L. Gross

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

There is no such thing as part freedom: it is all or nothing. - Nelson Mandela

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

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

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

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

Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has. - Anita Brookner

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

Every woman dreams of her own political career and her own place in life. - Raisa M. Gorbachev

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

Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will. - Mikhail Bakunin

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

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation. - Henry Kissinger

A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. - George Bernard Shaw

Either the government will be given to us or we shall seize it by marching on Rome. - Benito Mussolini

The secret of political bargaining is to look more strong than what you really are. - Subhash Bose

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity. - Karl Marx

Nothing changes the gender equation more significantly than women's economic freedom. - Gloria Steinem

There is freedom in forgiveness, and it's not that hard to do once you get into the habit. - Dana Perino

He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career. - George Bernard Shaw

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

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

I must study politics and war that my sons may have the liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. - John Adams

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

Animals are like little children a bit. They're simple. They don't have politics driving them. - Annabelle Sabloff

The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose. - Thornton Wilder

Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel. - John Quinton

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

Politicians and diapers have one thing in common. They should both be changed regularly, and for the same reason. - Jose Maria de Eca de Queiroz

Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes. - Robert Kennedy

The only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in keeping their money in their own pockets. - Lysander Spooner

I have certain rules I live by. My first rule: I don't believe anything the government tells me. Nothing. Zero. - George Carlin

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

Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship. - Patrick Henry

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

Very few of these panic-mongers have any personal knowledge of the countries that are already under blackshirt government. - Lord Rothermere

None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free. - Pearl S Buck

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

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

I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters, okay? It's, like, incredible. - Donald Trump

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

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. - Aristotle

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom. - Viktor Frankl

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