Democrat Gift

Politics makes strange red-fellows. - Will Rogers

Politics have no relation to morals. - Niccolo Machiavelli

In politics nothing is contemptible. - Benjamin Disraeli

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

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts. - Henry Brooks Adams

I never saw anything funnier than Texas politics. - Molly Ivins

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

The Golden Rule has no place in a political campaign. - John J Ingalls

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

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

We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy. - Martin L. Gross

War has rules, mud wrestling has rules - politics has no rules. - Ross Perot

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

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

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

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

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

The police force cannot be completely independent of the executive government. - P Chidambaram

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

In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man; if you want anything done, ask a woman. - Margaret Thatcher

Officialese: A government language where you can understand the words, but not the sentences - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

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

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

The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning. - Theodor Adorno

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand. - Milton Friedman

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

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

Taxpayer - someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination. - Ronald Reagan

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

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

It would be nice to spend billions on schools and roads, but right now that money is desperately needed for political ads. - Andy Borowitz

I'm not interested in cutting the feet off my characters or stretching them to make them fit my certain political view. - Margaret Atwood

The nine most terrifying words in the English language are,
"I'm from the government and I'm here to help." - Ronald Reagan

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

If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep. - Will Rogers

Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the Government take care of him, better take a closer look at the American Indian. - Henry Ford

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

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