Best Fairy Tale

Erection: When Japanese go to vote. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Under every stone lurks a politician. - Aristophanes

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

Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale. - Hans Christian Andersen

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

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

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

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

The art of government is the organization of idolatry. - George Bernard Shaw

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

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

The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world. - Reinhold Niebuhr

A politician will do anything to keep his job - even become a patriot. - William Randolph

Ultimatum: In diplomacy, a last demand before resorting to concessions - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

We would all like to vote for the best man but he is never a candidate. - Kin Hubbard

Every woman dreams of her own political career and her own place in life. - Raisa M. Gorbachev

Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for. - Will Rogers

The police force cannot be completely independent of the executive government. - P Chidambaram

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. - Winston Churchill

We go by the major vote, and if the majority are insane, the sane must go to the hospital. - Horace Mann

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, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one. - Thomas Paine

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

Animals are like little children a bit. They're simple. They don't have politics driving them. - Annabelle Sabloff

I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses. - Victor Hugo

The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning. - Theodor Adorno

I won't eat anything that has intelligent life, but I would gladly eat a network executive or a politician. - Marty Feldman

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

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

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

It's especially hard if the government is not providing services, or is even conducting ethnic cleansing against you. - Paul Harvey

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

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

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

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. - Aristotle

NEED now means wanting someone else's money. GREED means wanting to keep your own. COMPASSION is when a politician arranges the transfer. - Joseph Sobran

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