Should Have Pulled Out

Scotland is the Canada of England. - Rainn Wilson

Politics makes strange red-fellows. - Will Rogers

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

Canada first, Canada last, Canada always. - Wilfrid Laurier

Man is not free unless government is limited. - Ronald Reagan

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

I don't even know what street Canada is on. - Al Capone

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

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

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

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

Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party. - Herbert Hoover

We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy. - Martin L. Gross

Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest thing in the nicest way. - Isaac Goldberg

I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat. - Will Rogers

Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed. - Mao Zedong

Politics is the chloroform of the Irish people, or, rather the hashish. - Oliver St. John Gogarty

Politics is a profession where the paths of glory lead but to the gravy. - Billy Boy Franklin

Every woman dreams of her own political career and her own place in life. - Raisa M. Gorbachev

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

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

Canada is founded upon principles that recognize the supremacy of God and the rule of law. - Stockwell Day

He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career. - George Bernard Shaw

If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals. - Leo Tolstoy

So, if we lie to the government, it's a felony.
But if they lie to us, it's politics. - Bill Murray

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

I don't look for much to come out of government ownership as long as we have Democrats and Republicans. - Kin Hubbard

If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia. - Margaret Atwood

Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds. - John P Barlow

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. - Plato

At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else. - Shirley Chisholm

I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other. - Napoleon Bonaparte

Canada is a balloon-puncturing country. You are not really allowed to be an icon unless you also make an idiot of yourself. - Margaret Atwood

In any world menu, Canada must be considered the vichyssoise of nations - it's cold, half-French, and difficult to stir. - Stuart Keate

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book. - Ronald Reagan

The nine most terrifying words in the English language are,
"I'm from the government and I'm here to help." - Ronald Reagan

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

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

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