Failure To Launch

All politics is local. - Thomas P O'Neil

All politics is applesauce. - Will Rogers

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

In politics nothing is contemptible. - Benjamin Disraeli

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

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

Trying is the first step towards failure. - Homer Simpson

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

A government of law is a government of lawyers. - Saying

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory. - John Kenneth Galbraith

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

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

Failure is just another way to learn how to do something right. - Marian Wright Edelman

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

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

It's a new day. Yesterday's failure is redeemed at the sunrise. - Todd Stocker

Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed. - Mao Zedong

I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. - Will Rogers

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

Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts. - John Wooden

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

Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm. - Winston Churchill

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

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

A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame someone else. - John Burroughs

Ex-Presidents of the United States get state subsidies. Not so in Russia. You get no government support. - Mikhail Gorbachev

The main cause for failure and unhappiness is trading what you want most for what you want at the moment. - Unknown

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success. - Dale Carnegie

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

Politics: Poli, a Latin word meaning "many"; and tics, meaning "bloodsucking creatures." - Robin Williams

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

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

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

From New Year's on the outlook brightens; good humor lost in a mood of failure returns. I resolve to stop complaining. - Leonard Bernstein

We learn wisdom from failure much more than success. We often discover what we will do, by finding out what we will not do. - Samuel Smiles

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

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other. - Voltaire

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

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