QuotaBillsVote early and vote often. - Al Capone
Politics is an inexact science. - Otto von Bismarck
Good government is good politics. - Richard J. Daley
Man is by nature a political animal. - Aristotle
Intelligence has nothing to do with politics. - Londo Molari
From politics, it was an easy step to silence. - Jane Austen
All government, of course, is against liberty. - H L Mencken
I never vote for anyone; I always vote against. - WC Fields
Politics is the art of controlling your environment. - Hunter S. Thompson
Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. - Charles de Gaulle
The most important political office is that of the private citizen. - Louis D. Brandeis
I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent. - Edith Sitwell
In politics, madame, you need two things: friends, but above all an enemy. - Brian Mulroney
Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will. - Mikhail Bakunin
The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop. - P.J. O'Rourke
Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power. - Aldous Huxley
Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business. - Tom Robbins
I love Canada. I am from Canada. I will bash the Canadian government but never Canada. - Jason Priestley
Of all the tasks of government, the most basic is to protect its citizens from violence. - John Foster Dulles
Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. - P.J. O'Rourke
There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you. - Will Rogers
The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare. - Daniel P Moynihan
Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism. - Claude McKay
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. - Plato
I have certain rules I live by. My first rule: I don't believe anything the government tells me. Nothing. Zero. - George Carlin
Politics is the only business where doing nothing other than making the other guy look bad is an acceptable outcome. - Mark Warner
One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are. - Cal Thomas
What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those? - Gilbert Highet
If the government was as afraid of disturbing the consumer as it is of disturbing business, this would be some democracy. - Kin Hubbard
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy. - Groucho Marx
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
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
The workers' and peasants' government proposes to all warring peoples... negotiations leading to a just, democratic peace. - Lenin
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
A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life. - John Stuart Mill
Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people. - Joe Biden
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
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
Our ancestors believed in magic, prayers, trickery, browbeating and bullying. I think it would be fair to sum that up as 'Irish politics'. - Flann O'Brien
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