Obama Announcement

All politics is local. - Thomas P O'Neil

We need a great president. - Donald Trump

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

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

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

Everybody knows politics is a contact sport. - Barrack Obama

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

When I'm president, everyone gets a free pony. - Vermin Supreme

Obama does not like the issue of where he was born. - Donald Trump

Most bad government results from too much government. - Thomas Jefferson

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

The President is going to lead us out of this recovery. It will happen. - Dan Quayle

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

Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure. - Bertrand Russell

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

I wouldn't run for President. I wouldn't want to move to a smaller house. - Bono

My sheer existence is like a political act to a lot of people. It's not to me. - Grimes

Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it. - Laurence J Peter

The reason I'm running for President is because I can't be Bruce Springsteen. - Barack Obama

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

No president who performs his duties faithfully and conscientiously can have any leisure. - James K Polk

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. - George Bernard Shaw

Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it. - Tom Robbins

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

In America any boy may become President, and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes. - Adlai Stevenson

In Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination. - Irving Layton

Good thing we've still got politics in Texas - finest form of free entertainment ever invented. - Molly Ivins

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

When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves. - George Pataki

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. - John Kenneth Galbraith

One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are. - Cal Thomas

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

Did you hear about the auto worker who was offered a position as president of a bank but couldn't afford the pay cut? - Unknown

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

I'm not interested in cutting the feet off my characters or stretching them to make them fit my certain political view. - Margaret Atwood

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

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

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 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