Back Of The Line, Harry

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

Politics makes strange red-fellows. - Will Rogers

In politics nothing is contemptible. - Benjamin Disraeli

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

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

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

The problem with political jokes is they get elected. - Henry Cate, VII

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

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

After your death, you will be what you were before your birth. - Arthur Schopenhauer

Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds. - Buddha

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

The institution of royalty in any form is an insult to the human race. - Mark Twain

Politics is a profession where the paths of glory lead but to the gravy. - Billy Boy Franklin

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

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

Have you noticed that all the people in favor of birth control are already born? - Benny Hill

The most effective form of birth control I know is spending the day with my kids. - Jill Bensley

The secret of political bargaining is to look more strong than what you really are. - Subhash Bose

Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism. - Bill Moyers

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

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

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

A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them. - P.J. O'Rourke

A certificate of live birth is not the same thing by any stretch of the imagination as a birth certificate. - Donald Trump

We don't have inflation because we are living too well. We have it because government is living too well. - Ronald Reagan

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand. - Milton Friedman

The circumstances of one's birth are irrelevant. It is what you do with the gift of life that determines who you are. - Mewtwo

It would be nice to spend billions on schools and roads, but right now that money is desperately needed for political ads. - Andy Borowitz

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

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

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: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. - Ambrose Bierce

We're at a point in history where everyone needs to pay attention to politics. Too much is at stake for us to be apathetic. - Kevin Costner

One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them. - Virginia Woolf

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

If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep. - Will Rogers

Being in politics is like being a football coach; you have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important. - Eugene McCarthy

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