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All politics is local. - Thomas P O'Neil

Diplomacy: Lying in state. - Oliver Herford

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

Politics is the art of the possible. - Otto von Bismarck

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

Don't vote; it only encourages them. - Unknown

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

A penny saved is a Congressional oversight. - Hal Luyah

Everybody knows politics is a contact sport. - Barrack Obama

All government, of course, is against liberty. - H L Mencken

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

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under. - H L Mencken

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

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

An honest politician is one who when he's bought stays bought. - Simon Cameron

For every action, there is an equal and opposite government program. - Bob Wells

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

We would all like to vote for the best man but he is never a candidate. - Kin Hubbard

Government of the people, by the people, and for the pursuit of happiness. - Archie Bunker

Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. - John Kenneth Galbraith

The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy. - Theodore White

My sheer existence is like a political act to a lot of people. It's not to me. - Grimes

Personally, I'm against political jokes. Too often they get elected to office. - Henny Youngman

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

We could certainly slow the aging process down if it had to work its way through Congress. - Will Rogers

I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government. - Woody Allen

I am on your Walk of Fame in Toronto. My sense of humour is Canadian. But I can't vote. - Donald Sutherland

A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them. - P.J. O'Rourke

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

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

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

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 is a win-win for the American people, an idea no conventional politician would have the guts to put forward. - Donald Trump

Frankly, I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry. - Joseph Heller

I'm not interested in cutting the feet off my characters or stretching them to make them fit my certain political view. - Margaret Atwood

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost. - John Quincy Adams

The workers' and peasants' government proposes to all warring peoples... negotiations leading to a just, democratic peace. - Lenin

Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. - Ronald Reagan

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

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