Should Have Pulled Out

Politics is an inexact science. - Otto von Bismarck

Man is by nature a political animal. - Aristotle

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

Abstinence is easier than temperance. - Seneca

Crime does not pay as well as politics. - Alfred E. Newman

Political correctness is tyranny with manners. - Charlton Heston

If men were angels, no government would be necessary. - James Madison

The Golden Rule has no place in a political campaign. - John J Ingalls

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

I grew up working in Canada so everything was low budget. - Ellen Page

Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets. - Ronald Reagan

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

I don't go around signin' no political documentaries. - Archie Bunker

You can't get rich in politics unless you're a crook. - Harry S Truman

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

Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. - Charles de Gaulle

I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent. - Edith Sitwell

Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week. - Will Rogers

For our immediate family and relatives, Canada was a land of opportunity. - Sidney Altman

University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. - Henry Kissinger

I do have a political agenda. It's to have as few regulations as possible. - Dan Quayle

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

I love Canada. I am from Canada. I will bash the Canadian government but never Canada. - Jason Priestley

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

I love working in Canada. The ovation is great. It makes me feel like I'm the top dog. - Owen Hart

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

We don't come to Canada for our health. We can think of other ways of enjoying ourselves. - Prince Philip

I think every entrepreneur in Canada owes the next generation a road map of how to do it again. - Kevin O'Leary

In Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination. - Irving Layton

Canada has given us John Candy and Martin Short and Bill Shatner and Lord knows how many other wonderful performers. - Jamie Farr

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

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

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

When it comes to politics, I sit down on a sofa and grab some popcorn - or sometimes I crouch down in order not to get shot. - Sergey Galitsky

Every country must be absolutely free to adopt the type of economic, political and social system that it considers convenient. - Fidel Castro

When I was crossing the border into Canada, they asked if I had any firearms with me. I said, "Well, what do you need?" - Steven Wright

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

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

Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don't vote. - Paul Harvey

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