Should Have Pulled Out

Politics is an inexact science. - Otto von Bismarck

Politics is war by other measures. - Steve Bannon

Canada and space are a natural fit. - Marc Garneau

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

I get to go to overseas places, like Canada. - Britney Spears

The problem with political jokes is they get elected. - Henry Cate, VII

Political War: One in which everyone shoots from the lip - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

Canada has never been a melting pot; more like a tossed salad. - Arnold Edinborough

It's a terrible shame that politics has become show business. - Sydney Pollack

You have to know a man awfully well in Canada to know his surname. - John Buchan

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

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

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

The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop. - P.J. O'Rourke

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

When God created the world, he didn't draw a line between Canada and America. - Marianne Williamson

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

A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. - George Bernard Shaw

Either the government will be given to us or we shall seize it by marching on Rome. - Benito Mussolini

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

Canada is a good country to be from. It has a gentler slower pace - it lends perspective. - Paul Anka

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. - Robert Frost

Officialese: A government language where you can understand the words, but not the sentences - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have. - Thomas Jefferson

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

I have a huge interest in hockey because I grew up in Canada, where it's kind of the law that you love hockey. - Matthew Perry

Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless. - Milton Friedman

The business of government is to keep the government out of business - that is, unless business needs government aid. - Will Rogers

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

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men. - Plato

It was revealed in a government survey published today that the Prime Minister is doing the work of two men, Laurel and Hardy. - Ronnie Corbett

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

Canada is like an old cow. The West feeds it. Ontario and Quebec milk it. And you can well imagine what it's doing in the Maritimes. - Tommy Douglas

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. - Aristotle

In a world of complex threats, our security and leadership depends on all elements of our power - including strong and principled diplomacy. - Barack Obama

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my country. I make up for lost time when I am at home. - Winston Churchill

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

Regarded simply as a politician, and compared with the other leading political figures of our time, how clean a smell he has managed to leave behind. - Mahatma Gandhi