Obama Gone Yet?

A week is a long time in politics. - Harold Wilson

Man is by nature a political animal. - Aristotle

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

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

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

A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves. - Bertrand de Jouvenel

In my country we go to prison first and then become president. - Nelson Mandela

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

When the President does it, that means that it's not illegal. - Richard M Nixon

The President is going to lead us out of this recovery. It will happen. - Dan Quayle

Every woman dreams of her own political career and her own place in life. - Raisa M. Gorbachev

I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. - Will Rogers

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

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

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

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

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

Personally, I'm against political jokes. Too often they get elected to office. - Henny Youngman

Either the government will be given to us or we shall seize it by marching on Rome. - Benito Mussolini

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

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

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

President Ford tells us all to bite the bullet and Betsy Ford goes on TV and shoots off her mouth. - Archie Bunker

Good thing we've still got politics in Texas - finest form of free entertainment ever invented. - Molly Ivins

To be President of the United States, sir, is to act as advocate for a blind, venomous, and ungrateful client. - John Updike

Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism. - Claude McKay

The seeds of learning can grow almost anywhere. Trump University and my other education-related ventures like... - Donald Trump

I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power. - Arthur C. Clarke

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

Frankly, I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry. - Joseph Heller

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

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

Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so. - Gore Vidal

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

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 workers' and peasants' government proposes to all warring peoples... negotiations leading to a just, democratic peace. - Lenin

When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale. - John W. Gardner

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

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: "President Can't Swim." - Lyndon B. Johnson