Ineptocracy: a system of government where the least capable to lead are elected by the least capable of producing, and where members of society least likely to sustain themselves or succeed, are rewarded with goods and services paid for by the confiscated wealth of a diminishing number of producers.
QuotaBillsPolitics is an inexact science. - Otto von Bismarck
Good government is good politics. - Richard J. Daley
There is no gambling like politics. - Benjamin Disraeli
I am not a politician, but a soldier. - Idi Amin
Under every stone lurks a politician. - Aristophanes
The gun is not out of Irish politics. - Ian Paisley
Crime does not pay as well as politics. - Alfred E. Newman
Intelligence has nothing to do with politics. - Londo Molari
Politics is just show business for ugly people. - Jay Leno
Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business. - Winston Churchill
Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you. - Ralph Nader
I'm not a politician. I've only got one face. - Brendan Behan
The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia. - Otto von Bismarck
You can't get rich in politics unless you're a crook. - Harry S Truman
An honest man in politics shines more than he would elsewhere. - Mark Twain
An honest politician is one who when he's bought stays bought. - Simon Cameron
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought. - Simon Cameron
A politician will do anything to keep his job - even become a patriot. - William Randolph
A politician is a man who approaches every problem with an open mouth. - Adlai Stevenson
Politics is the chloroform of the Irish people, or, rather the hashish. - Oliver St. John Gogarty
In politics, madame, you need two things: friends, but above all an enemy. - Brian Mulroney
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
A filmmaker we almost lost to politics... my friend and colleague, Warren Beatty. - Jack Nicholson
Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism. - Bill Moyers
In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man; if you want anything done, ask a woman. - Margaret Thatcher
I had a very happy childhood, which is unsuitable if you're going to be an Irish writer. - Maeve Binchy
What is the first part of politics? Education. The second? Education. And the third? Education. - Jules Michelet
I must study politics and war that my sons may have the liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. - John Adams
Why pay money to have your family tree traced; go into politics and your opponents will do it for you. - Unknown
Animals are like little children a bit. They're simple. They don't have politics driving them. - Annabelle Sabloff
I won't eat anything that has intelligent life, but I would gladly eat a network executive or a politician. - Marty Feldman
Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you. - Pericles (430 B.C.)
In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate. - Charles de Gaulle
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy. - Groucho Marx
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
Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other. - Oscar Ameringer
A politician should have three hats. One for throwing into the ring, one for talking through, and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected. - Carl Sandburg
Being in politics is like being a football coach; you have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important. - Eugene McCarthy
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