Cheering Up Hillary

All politics is applesauce. - Will Rogers

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

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

Intelligence has nothing to do with politics. - Londo Molari

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts. - Henry Brooks Adams

Mr. President, I love you, but you're wrong. - Paul Harvey

I never saw anything funnier than Texas politics. - Molly Ivins

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

Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets. - Ronald Reagan

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

The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world. - Reinhold Niebuhr

Every man who wants to be President is either an egomaniac or crazy. - Dwight D Eisenhower

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

Politics is the chloroform of the Irish people, or, rather the hashish. - Oliver St. John Gogarty

There is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot. - Gary Hart

In politics, madame, you need two things: friends, but above all an enemy. - Brian Mulroney

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

A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. - George Bernard Shaw

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business. - Tom Robbins

Of all the tasks of government, the most basic is to protect its citizens from violence. - John Foster Dulles

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

I think it's an absolute disaster that Australia, the government, allowed kangaroo culling. - Steve Irwin

A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them. - P.J. O'Rourke

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. - Frederic Bastiat

I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power. - Arthur C. Clarke

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

Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless. - Milton Friedman

Politics is the only business where doing nothing other than making the other guy look bad is an acceptable outcome. - Mark Warner

In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate. - Charles de Gaulle

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

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

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy. - Groucho Marx

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

The Obama representatives like Robert Gibbs attack people viciously, but people like me will not be silent and will answer them back. - Donald Trump

These are stupid people that say, "Oh didn't Trump declare bankruptcy? Didn't he go bankrupt?" I didn't go bankrupt. - Donald Trump

Hillary Clinton was the worst Secretary of State in the history of the country. The world came apart under her reign as Secretary of State. - Donald Trump

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my country. I make up for lost time when I am at home. - Winston Churchill

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

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

Regarded simply as a politician, and compared with the other leading political figures of our time, how clean a smell he has managed to leave behind. - Mahatma Gandhi