Economic Stimulation

Good government is good politics. - Richard J. Daley

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

Politics makes strange red-fellows. - Will Rogers

Man is by nature a political animal. - Aristotle

In Congress, it's all pork, all the time. - Jim Cooper

To receive a benefit is to sell your liberty. - Laberius

Liberty is never being too sure you're right. - Learned Hand

There can be no wise politics without thought beforehand. - Annie Besant

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance. - Robert Frost

In politics, a lie unanswered becomes truth within 24 hours. - Willie Brown

An honest man in politics shines more than he would elsewhere. - Mark Twain

Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. - Charles de Gaulle

I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat. - Will Rogers

I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent. - Edith Sitwell

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

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

Politics is a profession where the paths of glory lead but to the gravy. - Billy Boy Franklin

I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. - Will Rogers

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

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

In a democracy the majority has every right to act as stupid as the minority. - Frank Dane

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

A good politician, under democracy, is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar. - H L Mencken

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

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

Everyone wants to eat at the government's table, but nobody wants to do the dishes. - Werner Finck

So, if we lie to the government, it's a felony.
But if they lie to us, it's politics. - Bill Murray

The irony of the matter is that the future generations do not have a vote. In effect, we hold their proxy. - Charles J Hitch

I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone. - H L Mencken

Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds. - John P Barlow

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

The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up. - Jay Leno

Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you. - Pericles (430 B.C.)

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

The nine most terrifying words in the English language are,
"I'm from the government and I'm here to help." - Ronald Reagan

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

I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters, okay? It's, like, incredible. - Donald Trump

I once said to my father, when I was a boy, 'Dad we need a third political party.' He said to me, 'I'll settle for a second.' - Ralph Nader

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

Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments. - Isaac Asimov