Busted Politician

All politics is local. - Thomas P O'Neil

Diplomacy: Lying in state. - Oliver Herford

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

Crime does not pay as well as politics. - Alfred E. Newman

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

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

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business. - Winston Churchill

I'm not a politician. I've only got one face. - Brendan Behan

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

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

Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets. - Ronald Reagan

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

For every action, there is an equal and opposite government program. - Bob Wells

The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I'd be honest. - Rodney Dangerfield

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

To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy. - Will Durant

No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power. - Jacob Bronowski

My sheer existence is like a political act to a lot of people. It's not to me. - Grimes

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

Either the government will be given to us or we shall seize it by marching on Rome. - Benito Mussolini

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. - George Bernard Shaw

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it. - Mark Twain

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. - Robert Frost

People want change but not too much change. Finding that balance is tricky for every politician. - Eleanor Clift

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

I don't look for much to come out of government ownership as long as we have Democrats and Republicans. - Kin Hubbard

If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner. - H L Mencken

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

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.)

Very few of these panic-mongers have any personal knowledge of the countries that are already under blackshirt government. - Lord Rothermere

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

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

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

A politician should have three hats. One for throwing into the ring, one for talking through, and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected. - Carl Sandburg

NEED now means wanting someone else's money. GREED means wanting to keep your own. COMPASSION is when a politician arranges the transfer. - Joseph Sobran

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my country. I make up for lost time when I am at home. - Winston Churchill

In politics, as in womanizing, failure is decisive. It sheds its retrospective gloom on earlier endeavor which at the time seemed full of promise. - Malcolm Muggeridge