Obama Announcement

All politics is local. - Thomas P O'Neil

Politics is an inexact science. - Otto von Bismarck

Good government is good politics. - Richard J. Daley

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

Oh, that lovely title, ex-president. - Dwight D Eisenhower

Vice-President: A cow's fifth teat. - Harry S Truman

I would rather be right than be President. - Henry Clay

The Golden Rule has no place in a political campaign. - John J Ingalls

Government cannot and must not replace private initiative. - Kim Campbell

Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party. - Herbert Hoover

In politics, a lie unanswered becomes truth within 24 hours. - Willie Brown

A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top. - James Reston

The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep. - George Stephanopolous

Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. - Charles de Gaulle

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

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

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

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

A filmmaker we almost lost to politics... my friend and colleague, Warren Beatty. - Jack Nicholson

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

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it. - Mark Twain

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

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

I must study politics and war that my sons may have the liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. - John Adams

A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have. - Thomas Jefferson

Folks who don't know why America is the Land of Promise should be here during an election campaign. - Milton Berle

Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism. - Claude McKay

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

Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you. - Pericles (430 B.C.)

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

Canada's political parties spend a few years in opposition and then govern as if it's permanent payback time. - Bob Rae

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

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

Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. - Ronald Reagan

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

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

Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments. - Isaac Asimov