![]() A week is a long time in politics. - Harold Wilson I am not a politician, but a soldier. - Idi Amin Under every stone lurks a politician. - Aristophanes From politics, it was an easy step to silence. - Jane Austen I love a dog. He does nothing for political reasons. - Will Rogers If men were angels, no government would be necessary. - James Madison Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance. - Robert Frost In politics, a lie unanswered becomes truth within 24 hours. - Willie Brown A diplomat is a man who thinks twice before he says nothing. - Unknown Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. - Charles de Gaulle Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest thing in the nicest way. - Isaac Goldberg Politics is the chloroform of the Irish people, or, rather the hashish. - Oliver St. John Gogarty In politics, madame, you need two things: friends, but above all an enemy. - Brian Mulroney The police force cannot be completely independent of the executive government. - P Chidambaram A good politician, under democracy, is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar. - H L Mencken Diplomacy is the art of saying, "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock. - Will Rogers My sheer existence is like a political act to a lot of people. It's not to me. - Grimes Either the government will be given to us or we shall seize it by marching on Rome. - Benito Mussolini The fastest way for a politician to become an elder statesman is to lose an election. - Earl Wilson Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. - P.J. O'Rourke My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight. - John F Kennedy Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it. - Mark Twain Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks. - Doug Larson There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you. - Will Rogers If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner. - H L Mencken The only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in keeping their money in their own pockets. - Lysander Spooner Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds. - Thurgood Marshall 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 What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those? - Gilbert Highet It's especially hard if the government is not providing services, or is even conducting ethnic cleansing against you. - Paul Harvey 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 The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, "I'm from the government and I'm here to help." - Ronald Reagan 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 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 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 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 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 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 see also Television Section America’s Moment of Truth Bad Hair Trump Donald Trump’s Dog Donald Trump Eagle Donald Trump Quotes Donald Trump White House Dusseldorf Carnival Float Hillarius Trump Ronald Trump Trump Sandwich Mel Hardman (aka elvisweathercock) Animations |
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