Conservative Plant

All politics is local. - Thomas P O'Neil

Good government is good politics. - Richard J. Daley

There is no gambling like politics. - Benjamin Disraeli

Politics makes strange postmasters. - Kin Hubbard

I am not a politician, but a soldier. - Idi Amin

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

Don't vote; it only encourages them. - Unknown

Voters want a fraud they can believe in. - Will Durst

Smoking cures weight problems... eventually. - Steven Wright

In Congress, it's all pork, all the time. - Jim Cooper

I love a dog. He does nothing for political reasons. - Will Rogers

A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke. - Rudyard Kipling

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

I'd rather smoke crack than eat cheese from a tin. - Gwyneth Paltrow

Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows - marriage does. - Groucho Marx

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

A conservative is someone who believes in reform. But not now. - Mort Sahl

World War II was the last government program that really worked. - George Will

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

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

A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel. - Robert Frost

I can remember way back when a liberal was generous with his own money. - Will Rogers

I smoke 10 to 15 cigars a day. At my age I have to hold on to something. - George Burns

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

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

We could certainly slow the aging process down if it had to work its way through Congress. - Will Rogers

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it. - Mark Twain

Get thee glass eyes;
And, like a scurvy politician, seem
To see the things thou dost not. - William Shakespeare

Democracy is very different in U.S. and A. from Kazakhstan. In America, woman can vote, but horse cannot! - Borat Sagdiyev

If the government was as afraid of disturbing the consumer as it is of disturbing business, this would be some democracy. - Kin Hubbard

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

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

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men. - Plato

Every country must be absolutely free to adopt the type of economic, political and social system that it considers convenient. - Fidel Castro

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

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

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

NEED now means wanting someone else's money. GREED means wanting to keep your own. COMPASSION is when a politician arranges the transfer. - Joseph Sobran

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

In politics, as in womanizing, failure is decisive. It sheds its retrospective gloom on earlier endeavor which at the time seemed full of promise. - Malcolm Muggeridge