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All politics is local. - Thomas P O'Neil

Politics is an inexact science. - Otto von Bismarck

Good government is good politics. - Richard J. Daley

Politics is war by other measures. - Steve Bannon

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

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

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

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

Bulldozing: Going to sleep during a political speech. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

A diplomat is a man who thinks twice before he says nothing. - Unknown

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

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

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

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

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

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

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. - Robert Frost

Officialese: A government language where you can understand the words, but not the sentences - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it. - Tom Robbins

What is the first part of politics? Education. The second? Education. And the third? Education. - Jules Michelet

Good thing we've still got politics in Texas - finest form of free entertainment ever invented. - Molly Ivins

A diplomat is someone who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you will look forward to the trip. - Caskie Stinnett

I don't look for much to come out of government ownership as long as we have Democrats and Republicans. - Kin Hubbard

Demagogue: A politician who can rock the boat and persuade everyone else that they're in a terrible storm - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless. - Milton Friedman

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

I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress. - Ronald Reagan

If the government was as afraid of disturbing the consumer as it is of disturbing business, this would be some democracy. - Kin Hubbard

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

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

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

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 general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other. - Voltaire

A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life. - John Stuart Mill

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

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

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

In politics, as in womanizing, failure is decisive. It sheds its retrospective gloom on earlier endeavor which at the time seemed full of promise. - Malcolm Muggeridge

The best way to lose weight is to close your mouth - something very difficult for a politician. Or watch your food - just watch it, don't eat it. - Edward I Kock