Mr. Dressup II

Vote early and vote often. - Al Capone

All politics is applesauce. - Will Rogers

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

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

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

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business. - Winston Churchill

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

The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia. - Otto von Bismarck

Self-government won't work without self-discipline. - Paul Harvey

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The fastest way for a politician to become an elder statesman is to lose an election. - Earl Wilson

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

In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man; if you want anything done, ask a woman. - Margaret Thatcher

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

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

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

The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare. - Daniel P Moynihan

Politics, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong. - Richard Armour

Trudeau's contribution was not to build Canada but to destroy it, and I had to come in and save it. - Brian Mulroney

Ex-Presidents of the United States get state subsidies. Not so in Russia. You get no government support. - Mikhail Gorbachev

The man who can make others laugh secures more votes for a measure than the man who forces them to think. - Malcolm de Chazal

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

Taxpayer - someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination. - Ronald Reagan

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

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

I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters, okay? It's, like, incredible. - Donald Trump

Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people. - Joe Biden

Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other. - Oscar Ameringer

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

I once said to my father, when I was a boy, 'Dad we need a third political party.' He said to me, 'I'll settle for a second.' - Ralph Nader

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

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