Build It - They Will Come

All politics is applesauce. - Will Rogers

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

The Golden Rule has no place in a political campaign. - John J Ingalls

The art of government is the organization of idolatry. - George Bernard Shaw

Government cannot and must not replace private initiative. - Kim Campbell

A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves. - Bertrand de Jouvenel

World War II was the last government program that really worked. - George Will

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

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

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

I will study and prepare myself… and someday my chance will come. - Abraham Lincoln

The time will come when winter will ask what you were doing all summer. - Henry Clay

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

Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will. - Mikhail Bakunin

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

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

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

I hope that one or two immortal lyrics will come out of all this tumbling around. - Louise Bogan

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

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power. - Aldous Huxley

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

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

Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it. - Tom Robbins

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

Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally. - David Frost

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. - John Kenneth Galbraith

If you put all your strength and faith and vigor into a job, and try to do the best you can, the money will come. - Lawrence Welk

Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds. - Thurgood Marshall

Take your work, but never yourself, seriously. Pour in the love and whatever skill you have, and it will come out. - Chuck Jones

Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless. - Milton Friedman

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

It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen. - George MacDonald

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book. - Ronald Reagan

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

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

Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. - Ronald Reagan

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

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