Ineptocracy

All politics is applesauce. - Will Rogers

Politics is an inexact science. - Otto von Bismarck

Politics makes strange postmasters. - Kin Hubbard

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

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

Intelligence has nothing to do with politics. - Londo Molari

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

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

Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you. - Ralph Nader

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

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory. - John Kenneth Galbraith

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

The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I'd be honest. - Rodney Dangerfield

An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought. - Simon Cameron

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

Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor. - Lady Bird Johnson

In politics, madame, you need two things: friends, but above all an enemy. - Brian Mulroney

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

A good politician, under democracy, is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar. - H L Mencken

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

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

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

Get thee glass eyes;
And, like a scurvy politician, seem
To see the things thou dost not. - William Shakespeare

Why pay money to have your family tree traced; go into politics and your opponents will do it for you. - Unknown

Politics: Poli, a Latin word meaning "many"; and tics, meaning "bloodsucking creatures." - Robin Williams

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. - John Kenneth Galbraith

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.)

Harold MacMillan is a very intelligent man, who, as so often happens in politics, achieved supreme power too late. - Malcolm Muggeridge

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

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

Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. - Ambrose Bierce

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

NEED now means wanting someone else's money. GREED means wanting to keep your own. COMPASSION is when a politician arranges the transfer. - Joseph Sobran

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

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