Trudeau Masterpiece

Vote early and vote often. - Al Capone

Diplomacy: Lying in state. - Oliver Herford

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

Don't vote; it only encourages them. - Unknown

I love a dog. He does nothing for political reasons. - Will Rogers

The only time I feel alive is when I'm painting. - Andy Warhol

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

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

In politics, a lie unanswered becomes truth within 24 hours. - Willie Brown

Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows - marriage does. - Groucho Marx

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

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

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

The most important political office is that of the private citizen. - Louis D. Brandeis

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

Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote. - William E. Simon

Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will. - Mikhail Bakunin

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

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. - Aristotle

To lodge all power in one party and keep it there is to insure bad government. - Mark Twain

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

Diplomacy is the art of saying, "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock. - Will Rogers

Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism. - Bill Moyers

When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy. - Charles de Secondat

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. - P.J. O'Rourke

I am on your Walk of Fame in Toronto. My sense of humour is Canadian. But I can't vote. - Donald Sutherland

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

Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity. - Irving Kristol

In a democracy, the one thing that cannot be done is to destroy its trust, its hope, its idealism. - Teresa Heinz

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

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

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. - Frederic Bastiat

Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds. - Thurgood Marshall

One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are. - Cal Thomas

The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not. - Thomas Jefferson

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

A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election. - Bill Vaughan

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 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

Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments. - Isaac Asimov