Obama Announcement

Man is by nature a political animal. - Aristotle

Politics is the art of the possible. - Otto von Bismarck

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

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

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

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory. - John Kenneth Galbraith

Self-government won't work without self-discipline. - Paul Harvey

Political War: One in which everyone shoots from the lip - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Sudafed: Brought litigation against a government official - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows - marriage does. - Groucho Marx

We need a president who's fluent in at least one language. - Buck Henry

Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed. - Mao Zedong

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

In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take. - Adlai Stevenson

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

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

Personally, I'm against political jokes. Too often they get elected to office. - Henny Youngman

Either the government will be given to us or we shall seize it by marching on Rome. - Benito Mussolini

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

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

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

He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career. - George Bernard Shaw

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand. - Milton Friedman

Harold MacMillan is a very intelligent man, who, as so often happens in politics, achieved supreme power too late. - Malcolm Muggeridge

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

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

Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half. - Gore Vidal

What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those? - Gilbert Highet

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

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend. - Thomas Jefferson

Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. - Ambrose Bierce

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

Every country must be absolutely free to adopt the type of economic, political and social system that it considers convenient. - Fidel Castro

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

I am quite sure now that often in matters concerning religion and politics, a man's reasoning powers are not above the monkeys. - Mark Twain

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

If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep. - Will Rogers

In politics, as in womanizing, failure is decisive. It sheds its retrospective gloom on earlier endeavor which at the time seemed full of promise. - Malcolm Muggeridge