Coming In, Going Out

All politics is local. - Thomas P O'Neil

Good government is good politics. - Richard J. Daley

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

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

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

In politics an absurdity is not a handicap. - Napoleon Bonaparte

Man is not free unless government is limited. - Ronald Reagan

Mr. President, I love you, but you're wrong. - Paul Harvey

Government is an endless pursuit of new ways to tax. - Unknown

You can't get rich in politics unless you're a crook. - Harry S Truman

In my country we go to prison first and then become president. - Nelson Mandela

When the President does it, that means that it's not illegal. - Richard M Nixon

It's a terrible shame that politics has become show business. - Sydney Pollack

The most important political office is that of the private citizen. - Louis D. Brandeis

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

Every man who wants to be President is either an egomaniac or crazy. - Dwight D Eisenhower

Politics is the chloroform of the Irish people, or, rather the hashish. - Oliver St. John Gogarty

University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. - Henry Kissinger

In politics, madame, you need two things: friends, but above all an enemy. - Brian Mulroney

Government of the people, by the people, and for the pursuit of happiness. - Archie Bunker

Government can't give us anything without depriving us of something else. - Henry Hazlitt

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

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

The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another. - William James

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

Stress exacerbates any problem, whether it's diabetes, heart trouble, MS, or whatever. - Mary Ann Mobley

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

The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare. - Daniel P Moynihan

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

A diplomat is someone who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you will look forward to the trip. - Caskie Stinnett

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. - Frederic Bastiat

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

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

Frankly, I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry. - Joseph Heller

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

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

It was revealed in a government survey published today that the Prime Minister is doing the work of two men, Laurel and Hardy. - Ronnie Corbett

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

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