Trudeau Masterpiece

Jazz is democracy in music. - Wynton Marsalis

All politics is applesauce. - Will Rogers

Politics is an inexact science. - Otto von Bismarck

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

What is this, an audience or an oil painting? - Milton Berle

A government of law is a government of lawyers. - Saying

I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting. - Jackson Pollock

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun. - R Buckminster Fuller

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

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

There can be no wise politics without thought beforehand. - Annie Besant

A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top. - James Reston

We have the best government in the world... that money can buy. - Mark Twain

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

Commitments the voters don’t know about can't hurt you. - Ogden Nash

The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world. - Reinhold Niebuhr

Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least. - Robert Byrne

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

Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated. - Will Rogers

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

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

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

To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy. - Bertrand Russell

In Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination. - Irving Layton

A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them. - P.J. O'Rourke

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. - H L Mencken

A diplomat is someone who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you will look forward to the trip. - Caskie Stinnett

There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy. - Fidel Castro

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

Democracy means that anyone can grow up to be president, and anyone who doesn't grow up can be vice president. - Johnny Carson

Love, like democracy, can survive almost any attack - except neglect, indifference and maybe an arrow in the back. - Unknown

Canada's political parties spend a few years in opposition and then govern as if it's permanent payback time. - Bob Rae

It's especially hard if the government is not providing services, or is even conducting ethnic cleansing against you. - Paul Harvey

A democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates. - Gore Vidal

Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary. - Reinhold Niebuhr

When it comes to politics, I sit down on a sofa and grab some popcorn - or sometimes I crouch down in order not to get shot. - Sergey Galitsky

It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen. - George MacDonald

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

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