Economic Stimulation

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

Politics makes strange postmasters. - Kin Hubbard

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

Politics have no relation to morals. - Niccolo Machiavelli

Don't vote; it only encourages them. - Unknown

Everybody knows politics is a contact sport. - Barrack Obama

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

From politics, it was an easy step to silence. - Jane Austen

I never vote for anyone; I always vote against. - WC Fields

A government of law is a government of lawyers. - Saying

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

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

If men were angels, no government would be necessary. - James Madison

Self-government won't work without self-discipline. - Paul Harvey

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

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

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

Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing. - Bernard Baruch

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

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. - H L Mencken

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

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

I have a wonderful make-up crew. They're the same people restoring the Statue of Liberty. - Bob Hope

A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them. - P.J. O'Rourke

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

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

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.)

There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism. - Alexander Hamilton

Politics is the only business where doing nothing other than making the other guy look bad is an acceptable outcome. - Mark Warner

Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. - Benjamin Franklin

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 would be nice to spend billions on schools and roads, but right now that money is desperately needed for political ads. - Andy Borowitz

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: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. - Ambrose Bierce

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost. - John Quincy Adams

In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress. - John Adams

The workers' and peasants' government proposes to all warring peoples... negotiations leading to a just, democratic peace. - Lenin

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

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 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