The Real Virus

Canada is hockey. - Mike Weir

That virus is a pussycat. - Peter Duesberg

All politics is applesauce. - Will Rogers

Canada was built on dead beavers. - Margaret Atwood

Good government is good politics. - Richard J. Daley

Scotland is the Canada of England. - Rainn Wilson

Politics have no relation to morals. - Niccolo Machiavelli

Humanity is just a virus with shoes. - Bill Hicks

Under every stone lurks a politician. - Aristophanes

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

This virus just breaks all the rules. - Thomas Scott

Language is a virus from outer space. - William S Burroughs

Focus: What Canadian politicians lack. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Vaccine: A microbe with his face washed - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Canada first, Canada last, Canada always. - Wilfrid Laurier

IN GOD WE TRUST: All others we virus scan - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

In politics the middle way is none at all. - John Adams

I get to go to overseas places, like Canada. - Britney Spears

A politician... one that would circumvent God. - William Shakespeare

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

Canada has two emblems - the beaver and the maple. - John W. Dawson

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

Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you. - Ralph Nader

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

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

Canada is like a loft apartment over a really great party. - Robin Williams

Bras: The most unused household item during Quarantine 2021. - Unknown

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

We can't predict what a virus we've never seen will do. - Marc Lipsitch

It's a terrible shame that politics has become show business. - Sydney Pollack

In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant. - Charles de Gaulle

The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I'd be honest. - Rodney Dangerfield

An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought. - Simon Cameron

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

Politics is the chloroform of the Irish people, or, rather the hashish. - Oliver St. John Gogarty

For our immediate family and relatives, Canada was a land of opportunity. - Sidney Altman

In politics, madame, you need two things: friends, but above all an enemy. - Brian Mulroney

Canada is the only country founded on the relentless pursuit of the rodent. - Preston Manning

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

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

When you think of hockey, when you think of Canada, you think of Wayne Gretzky. - Joe Sakic

Ignorance is a virus. Once it starts spreading, it can only be cured by reason. - Neil Tyson

Being a politician is a poor profession. Being a public servant is a noble one. - Herbert C Hoover

A filmmaker we almost lost to politics... my friend and colleague, Warren Beatty. - Jack Nicholson

As far as single payer, it works in Canada. It works incredibly well in Scotland. - Donald Trump

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

There are no crooked politicians in America. They've legalized their thievery. - Frank Dane

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

I love working in Canada. The ovation is great. It makes me feel like I'm the top dog. - Owen Hart

Canada is founded upon principles that recognize the supremacy of God and the rule of law. - Stockwell Day

South Africa is the most beautiful country I have been to. Canada is also hugely underrated. - Honor Blackman

Why is America the last best hope of Earth? What if it's Liechtenstein? Or, worse, Canada? - Sarah Vowell

Coming from Canada, being a writer and Jewish as well, I have impeccable paranoia credentials. - Mordecai Richler

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

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers. - Nikita Khruschev

So, if we lie to the government, it's a felony.
But if they lie to us, it's politics. - Bill Murray

I must study politics and war that my sons may have the liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. - John Adams

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

The concept that vaccine-induced immunity is superior in any way to natural immunity is sheer nonsense. - Dr Steven Pelech

Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel. - John Quinton

Contracting COVID19 is not a death sentence. So, maintain social distancing and wash your hands frequently. - Abhijit Naskar

Politics: Poli, a Latin word meaning "many"; and tics, meaning "bloodsucking creatures." - Robin Williams

Make no mistake. Canada is not a bilingual country. In fact it is less bilingual today than it has ever been. - Stephen Harper

Demagogue: A politician who can rock the boat and persuade everyone else that they're in a terrible storm - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

150 people die every year from being hit by falling coconuts. Not to worry, drug makers are developing a vaccine. - Jim Carrey

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

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

Politics is the only business where doing nothing other than making the other guy look bad is an acceptable outcome. - Mark Warner

Canada has given us John Candy and Martin Short and Bill Shatner and Lord knows how many other wonderful performers. - Jamie Farr

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

I was born in Canada for a reason. It was because my parents wanted me to have the freedoms that this country offers. - Patrick Chan

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

In America you can go on the air and kid the politicians,
and the politicians can go on the air and kid the people. - Groucho Marx

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

Physicians and politicians resemble one another in this respect, that some defend the constitution and others destroy it. - Unknown

Canada is a balloon-puncturing country. You are not really allowed to be an icon unless you also make an idiot of yourself. - Margaret Atwood

One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President. - Lyndon B. Johnson

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

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

Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. - Ronald Reagan

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

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. - Aristotle

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

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