Read My Lipstick

Seek wealth, it's good. - Ivan Boesky

My own tax expert, H & R Crock. - Archie Bunker

Politics is an inexact science. - Otto von Bismarck

In politics nothing is contemptible. - Benjamin Disraeli

The ungovernable passion for wealth. - Ovid

Everybody knows politics is a contact sport. - Barrack Obama

Didn't he take the exercise tax off cars? - Archie Bunker

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

Politics is just show business for ugly people. - Jay Leno

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

We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy. - Martin L. Gross

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

Income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has. - Will Rogers

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

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

I do have a political agenda. It's to have as few regulations as possible. - Dan Quayle

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

I love Canada. I am from Canada. I will bash the Canadian government but never Canada. - Jason Priestley

In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man; if you want anything done, ask a woman. - Margaret Thatcher

There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you. - Will Rogers

It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness: poverty and wealth have both failed. - Kin Hubbard

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

A tax loophole is something that benefits the other guy. If it benefits you, it is a tax reform. - Russell B Long

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

We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business. - Will Rogers

When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power. - Maggie Gallagher

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

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

I love those hockey moms. You know what they say the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull is? Lipstick. - Sarah Palin

They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America? - Fidel Castro

Health is your greatest wealth, so experiencing a marathon and seeing what you're capable of is really special. - Christy Turlington

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

What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those? - Gilbert Highet

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

Every country must be absolutely free to adopt the type of economic, political and social system that it considers convenient. - Fidel Castro

A lost empire, lost power and lost wealth provide perfect circumstances for living happily and contentedly in our enchanted island. - Malcolm Muggeridge

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries. - Winston Churchill

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

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