Busted Politician

All politics is local. - Thomas P O'Neil

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

There is no gambling like politics. - Benjamin Disraeli

Under every stone lurks a politician. - Aristophanes

In politics the middle way is none at all. - John Adams

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

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

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

I never saw anything funnier than Texas politics. - Molly Ivins

Most bad government results from too much government. - Thomas Jefferson

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

The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia. - Otto von Bismarck

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

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

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

War has rules, mud wrestling has rules - politics has no rules. - Ross Perot

It's a terrible shame that politics has become show business. - Sydney Pollack

In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant. - Charles de Gaulle

An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought. - Simon Cameron

A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country. - Tex Guinan

A politician is a man who approaches every problem with an open mouth. - Adlai Stevenson

Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor. - Lady Bird Johnson

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

University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. - Henry Kissinger

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

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

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

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. - P.J. O'Rourke

What is the first part of politics? Education. The second? Education. And the third? Education. - Jules Michelet

It's our experience that political leaders don't always mean the opposite of what they say. - Abba Eban

I must study politics and war that my sons may have the liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. - John Adams

When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves. - George Pataki

At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else. - Shirley Chisholm

I'm not interested in cutting the feet off my characters or stretching them to make them fit my certain political view. - Margaret Atwood

When it comes to politics, I sit down on a sofa and grab some popcorn - or sometimes I crouch down in order not to get shot. - Sergey Galitsky

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

A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election. - Bill Vaughan

An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry. - George Eliot

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