Obama Gone Yet?

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

In politics nothing is contemptible. - Benjamin Disraeli

Oh, that lovely title, ex-president. - Dwight D Eisenhower

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

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

When I'm president, everyone gets a free pony. - Vermin Supreme

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

The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia. - Otto von Bismarck

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under. - H L Mencken

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

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

I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent. - Edith Sitwell

I do have a political agenda. It's to have as few regulations as possible. - Dan Quayle

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

I wouldn't run for President. I wouldn't want to move to a smaller house. - Bono

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

I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government. - Woody Allen

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

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

Obama and his attack dogs have nothing but hate and anger in their hearts and spew it whenever possible. - Donald Trump

I don't look for much to come out of government ownership as long as we have Democrats and Republicans. - Kin Hubbard

Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds. - John P Barlow

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

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

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

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

Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half. - Gore Vidal

I like thieves. Some of my best friends are thieves. Why, just last week we had the president of the bank over for dinner. - WC Fields

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

Very few of these panic-mongers have any personal knowledge of the countries that are already under blackshirt government. - Lord Rothermere

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

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

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

I am quite sure now that often in matters concerning religion and politics, a man's reasoning powers are not above the monkeys. - Mark Twain

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

If Obama resigns from office NOW, thereby doing a great service to the country, I will give him free lifetime golf at any one of my courses. - Donald Trump

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

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