Mr. Dressup II

All politics is local. - Thomas P O'Neil

Politics is an inexact science. - Otto von Bismarck

A week is a long time in politics. - Harold Wilson

There is no gambling like politics. - Benjamin Disraeli

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A politician is a man who approaches every problem with an open mouth. - Adlai Stevenson

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

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

No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power. - Jacob Bronowski

The short memories of American voters is what keeps our politicians in office. - Will Rogers

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

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business. - Tom Robbins

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

Whenever a fellow tells me he's bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me. - Harry S Truman

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. - Winston Churchill

My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight. - John F Kennedy

Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks. - Doug Larson

What is the first part of politics? Education. The second? Education. And the third? Education. - Jules Michelet

One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government. - Donald Trump

The largest party in America is neither the Democrats nor the Republicans. It's the party of non-voters. - Robert Reich

If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner. - H L Mencken

The only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in keeping their money in their own pockets. - Lysander Spooner

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

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

In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate. - Charles de Gaulle

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

Very few of these panic-mongers have any personal knowledge of the countries that are already under blackshirt government. - Lord Rothermere

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost. - John Quincy Adams

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

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

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

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