Cheering Up Hillary

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

In politics an absurdity is not a handicap. - Napoleon Bonaparte

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

Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you. - Ralph Nader

Government is an endless pursuit of new ways to tax. - Unknown

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

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

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

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

For every action, there is an equal and opposite government program. - Bob Wells

American Politics: A form of socialism for the rich, including the politicians. - Gregory Nunn

Frankly, I don't mind not being President. I just mind that someone else is. - Edward Kennedy

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

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

If Hillary Clinton can't satisfy her husband what makes her think she can satisfy America. - Donald Trump

Ronald Reagan knew who he was. Barack Obama is still working through that equation politically. - Joe Scarborough

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

It's our experience that political leaders don't always mean the opposite of what they say. - Abba Eban

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

At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else. - Shirley Chisholm

Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds. - Thurgood Marshall

I have certain rules I live by. My first rule: I don't believe anything the government tells me. Nothing. Zero. - George Carlin

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

The business of government is to keep the government out of business - that is, unless business needs government aid. - Will Rogers

Being President is a lot like running a cemetery. You've got a lot of people under you and nobody's listening. - Bill Clinton

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

It's especially hard if the government is not providing services, or is even conducting ethnic cleansing against you. - Paul Harvey

It would be nice to spend billions on schools and roads, but right now that money is desperately needed for political ads. - Andy Borowitz

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 not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book. - Ronald Reagan

The nine most terrifying words in the English language are,
"I'm from the government and I'm here to help." - Ronald Reagan

An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry. - George Eliot

Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people. - Joe Biden

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

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