Busted Politician

Busted tribia (tibia) - Archie Bunker

I am not a politician, but a soldier. - Idi Amin

Under every stone lurks a politician. - Aristophanes

The gun is not out of Irish politics. - Ian Paisley

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

Everybody knows politics is a contact sport. - Barrack Obama

You campaign in poetry; you govern in prose. - Mario Cuomo

Man is not free unless government is limited. - Ronald Reagan

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

Political correctness is tyranny with manners. - Charlton Heston

All government, of course, is against liberty. - H L Mencken

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts. - Henry Brooks Adams

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

I love a dog. He does nothing for political reasons. - Will Rogers

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

Government is an endless pursuit of new ways to tax. - Unknown

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

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

I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together. - Gerald R. Ford

Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest thing in the nicest way. - Isaac Goldberg

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

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

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

A filmmaker we almost lost to politics... my friend and colleague, Warren Beatty. - Jack Nicholson

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

My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight. - John F Kennedy

Good thing we've still got politics in Texas - finest form of free entertainment ever invented. - Molly Ivins

Get thee glass eyes;
And, like a scurvy politician, seem
To see the things thou dost not. - William Shakespeare

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

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. - Frederic Bastiat

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. - Plato

Taxpayer - someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination. - Ronald Reagan

It's especially hard if the government is not providing services, or is even conducting ethnic cleansing against you. - Paul Harvey

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

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy. - Groucho Marx

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

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

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

Regarded simply as a politician, and compared with the other leading political figures of our time, how clean a smell he has managed to leave behind. - Mahatma Gandhi