Spreading The Wealth

The bad guys always get a vote. - Navy saying

Ability is a poor man's wealth. - John Wooden

Politics makes strange red-fellows. - Will Rogers

Politics have no relation to morals. - Niccolo Machiavelli

Praise is ever attendant on great wealth. - Roman Proverb

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

You campaign in poetry; you govern in prose. - Mario Cuomo

Every country has the government it deserves. - Joseph de Maistre

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business. - Winston Churchill

America is a land where men govern, but women rule. - John M Brown

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun. - R Buckminster Fuller

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

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

An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth. - Bonnie Friedman

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

We have the best government in the world... that money can buy. - Mark Twain

Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells. - J Paul Getty

Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy. - Sir Peter Ustinov

Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least. - Robert Byrne

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

Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure. - Bertrand Russell

Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. - John Kenneth Galbraith

No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent. - Abraham Lincoln

To lodge all power in one party and keep it there is to insure bad government. - Mark Twain

The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop. - P.J. O'Rourke

Democracy used to be a good thing, but now it has gotten into the wrong hands. - Jesse Helms

The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy. - Theodore White

Diplomacy is the art of saying, "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock. - Will Rogers

Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated. - Will Rogers

A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. - George Bernard Shaw

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

I learned a long time ago in Hollywood that the only person I should vote for is myself. - Jack Nicholson

Of all the tasks of government, the most basic is to protect its citizens from violence. - John Foster Dulles

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

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. - George Bernard Shaw

For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them. - Seneca

I am on your Walk of Fame in Toronto. My sense of humour is Canadian. But I can't vote. - Donald Sutherland

Passover affirms the great truth that liberty is the inalienable right of every human being. - Morris Joseph

I think it's an absolute disaster that Australia, the government, allowed kangaroo culling. - Steve Irwin

In Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination. - Irving Layton

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

I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast. - Viktor Frankl

Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave. - Henry Brougham

The men who have furnished me with my greatest inspiration have not been men of wealth, but men of deeds. - James C Penney

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

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

They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men. - Clare Boothe Luce

Inherited wealth is a big handicap to happiness. It is as certain death to ambition as cocaine is to morality. - William K Vanderbilt

Democracy means that anyone can grow up to be president, and anyone who doesn't grow up can be vice president. - Johnny Carson

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

In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate. - Charles de Gaulle

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

I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress. - Ronald Reagan

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

A democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates. - Gore Vidal

Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth. - Peter F Drucker

We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both. - Louis D. Branders

Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people. - Joe Biden

Lost wealth may be replaced by industry; lost knowledge by study; lost health by temperance or medicine; but lost time is gone forever. - Samuel Smiles

Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other. - Oscar Ameringer

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant. - Epictetus

In a world of complex threats, our security and leadership depends on all elements of our power - including strong and principled diplomacy. - Barack Obama

Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don't vote. - Paul Harvey

Being in politics is like being a football coach; you have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important. - Eugene McCarthy

Political correctness is about denial, usually in the weasel circumlocutory jargon which distorts and evades and seldom stands up to honest analysis. - George M Fraser