Trump Whines

Wine is bottled poetry. - Robert Louis Stevenson

Verbal: Able to whine in words - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Politics is war by other measures. - Steve Bannon

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

I'm Hybrid. I run on chocolate and wine. - Unknown

Every country has the government it deserves. - Joseph de Maistre

To receive a benefit is to sell your liberty. - Laberius

I never vote for anyone; I always vote against. - WC Fields

Those who trade liberty for security have neither. - John Adams

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

All diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means. - Zhou Enlai

Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote. - George Jean Nathan

It was 2:00 p.m., too early for wine but not for chocolate. - Andrea Hurst

A diplomat is a man who thinks twice before he says nothing. - Unknown

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

An honest man in politics shines more than he would elsewhere. - Mark Twain

I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together. - Gerald R. Ford

World War II was the last government program that really worked. - George Will

Men are governed only by serving them; the rule is without exception. - V. Cousin

Passion and prejudice govern the world, only under the name of reason. - John Wesley

We would all like to vote for the best man but he is never a candidate. - Kin Hubbard

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

Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure. - Bertrand Russell

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

No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent. - Abraham Lincoln

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. - H L Mencken

My sheer existence is like a political act to a lot of people. It's not to me. - Grimes

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

The secret of political bargaining is to look more strong than what you really are. - Subhash Bose

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

That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves. - Thomas Jefferson

Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it. - Tom Robbins

I have a wonderful make-up crew. They're the same people restoring the Statue of Liberty. - Bob Hope

Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine. - Fran Lebowitz

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

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

It's our experience that political leaders don't always mean the opposite of what they say. - Abba Eban

Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have elections is to find out if the polls were right? - Robert Orben

This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer. - Will Rogers

The irony of the matter is that the future generations do not have a vote. In effect, we hold their proxy. - Charles J Hitch

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time. - E.B. White

If you have to choose between drinking wine every day or being skinny, which would you choose: Red or White? - Unknown

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

I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone. - H L Mencken

Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you. - Pericles (430 B.C.)

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

Milk is the drink of babies, tea the drink of women, water the drink of beasts, and wine is the drink of the gods. - John S Blackie

Harold MacMillan is a very intelligent man, who, as so often happens in politics, achieved supreme power too late. - Malcolm Muggeridge

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote. - Benjamin Franklin

I'd learned some things. I knew you weren't supposed to hold a good wine at the top - the paper bag falls off. - Pat Paulsen

What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those? - Gilbert Highet

If the government was as afraid of disturbing the consumer as it is of disturbing business, this would be some democracy. - Kin Hubbard

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

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy. - Groucho Marx

Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. - Ambrose Bierce

The most dangerous person of the world is a member of the United States Congress just home from a three-day fact-finding trip. - Johnny Isakson

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

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

These are stupid people that say, "Oh didn't Trump declare bankruptcy? Didn't he go bankrupt?" I didn't go bankrupt. - Donald Trump

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

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

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

Regarded simply as a politician, and compared with the other leading political figures of our time, how clean a smell he has managed to leave behind. - Mahatma Gandhi

Political correctness is about denial, usually in the weasel circumlocutory jargon which distorts and evades and seldom stands up to honest analysis. - George M Fraser