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All politics is local. - Thomas P O'Neil

Politics is an inexact science. - Otto von Bismarck

Good government is good politics. - Richard J. Daley

Politics makes strange postmasters. - Kin Hubbard

Man is by nature a political animal. - Aristotle

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

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

Political correctness is tyranny with manners. - Charlton Heston

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

Politics is the art of controlling your environment. - Hunter S. Thompson

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

Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity. - Albert Einstein

We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy. - Martin L. Gross

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under. - H L Mencken

Needless to say, the president is correct. Whatever it was he said. - Donald Rumsfeld

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

Politics is a profession where the paths of glory lead but to the gravy. - Billy Boy Franklin

Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will. - Mikhail Bakunin

No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power. - Jacob Bronowski

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

Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism. - Bill Moyers

Hard men present hard choices - none more so than Vladimir Putin, the President of Russia. - Hillary Clinton

Officialese: A government language where you can understand the words, but not the sentences - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

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

Why pay money to have your family tree traced; go into politics and your opponents will do it for you. - Unknown

Politics: Poli, a Latin word meaning "many"; and tics, meaning "bloodsucking creatures." - Robin Williams

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

To be President of the United States, sir, is to act as advocate for a blind, venomous, and ungrateful client. - John Updike

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

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

When the President decides something on Monday, he still believes it on Wednesday - no matter what happened Tuesday. - Stephen Colbert

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

Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so. - Gore Vidal

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

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

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

Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other. - Oscar Ameringer

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