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Good government is good politics. - Richard J. Daley

In politics nothing is contemptible. - Benjamin Disraeli

Oh, that lovely title, ex-president. - Dwight D Eisenhower

I would rather be right than be President. - Henry Clay

Everybody knows politics is a contact sport. - Barrack Obama

Politics is the art of controlling your environment. - Hunter S. Thompson

Government is an endless pursuit of new ways to tax. - Unknown

The art of government is the organization of idolatry. - George Bernard Shaw

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

The presidency is temporary, but the family is permanent. - Yvonne de Gaulle

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance. - Robert Frost

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

We need a president who's fluent in at least one language. - Buck Henry

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

When the President does it, that means that it's not illegal. - Richard M Nixon

Needless to say, the president is correct. Whatever it was he said. - Donald Rumsfeld

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

The President is going to lead us out of this recovery. It will happen. - Dan Quayle

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

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

Government can't give us anything without depriving us of something else. - Henry Hazlitt

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

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power. - Aldous Huxley

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

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it. - Mark Twain

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

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

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

I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university. - Albert Einstein

When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves. - George Pataki

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

Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism. - Claude McKay

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand. - Milton Friedman

Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds. - Thurgood Marshall

There are advantages to being President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret. - Ronald Reagan

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy. - Groucho Marx

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

If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep. - Will Rogers

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

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