Cheering Up Hillary

All politics is local. - Thomas P O'Neil

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

Politics makes strange red-fellows. - Will Rogers

How can a President not be an actor? - Ronald Reagan

Man is by nature a political animal. - Aristotle

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

Everybody knows politics is a contact sport. - Barrack Obama

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

Political correctness is tyranny with manners. - Charlton Heston

From politics, it was an easy step to silence. - Jane Austen

A government of law is a government of lawyers. - Saying

As our President said in his renegurial address. - Archie Bunker

The problem with political jokes is they get elected. - Henry Cate, VII

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

We need a president who's fluent in at least one language. - Buck Henry

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

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

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

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

The most important political office is that of the private citizen. - Louis D. Brandeis

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

Government can't give us anything without depriving us of something else. - Henry Hazlitt

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

In America the President reigns for four years and journalism governs forever and ever. - Oscar Wilde

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

There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you. - Will Rogers

What is the first part of politics? Education. The second? Education. And the third? Education. - Jules Michelet

So, if we lie to the government, it's a felony.
But if they lie to us, it's politics. - Bill Murray

The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare. - Daniel P Moynihan

When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power. - Maggie Gallagher

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. - Plato

The only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in keeping their money in their own pockets. - Lysander Spooner

Democracy means that anyone can grow up to be president, and anyone who doesn't grow up can be vice president. - Johnny Carson

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

There are advantages to being President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret. - Ronald Reagan

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

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

A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election. - Bill Vaughan

A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life. - John Stuart Mill

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