Here Comes Trouble

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

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

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

The trouble with history is its dependence upon diplomats. - Gerald F Lieberman

Government cannot and must not replace private initiative. - Kim Campbell

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

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

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under. - H L Mencken

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

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

I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat. - Will Rogers

To deceive a diplomat speak the truth, he has no experience with it. - Greek Proverb

We should not be afraid to go into a new era, to leave the old beyond. - Zack Wamp

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

My uncle is in trouble with his union. They caught him working on the job. - Joey Adams

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

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

American Politics: A form of socialism for the rich, including the politicians. - Gregory Nunn

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

Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it. - Laurence J Peter

Trouble is, by the time you can read a girl like a book, your library card has expired. - Milton Berle

You know that I'm at death's door. But the trouble is that I'm afraid to knock. - W Somerset Maugham

If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old. - Edgar Watson Howe

My love life is terrible. The last time I was inside a woman was when I visited the Statue of Liberty. - Woody Allen

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

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.)

The trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your life running up and down the field and never score. - Bill Copeland

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not. - George Bernard Shaw

The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds. - Will Durant

Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force. - Dorothy L Sayers

The USA demanding that North Korea halt its nuclear program is akin to the fox demanding that the hens open their coup. - Steven Magee

It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so. - Mark Twain

If the government was as afraid of disturbing the consumer as it is of disturbing business, this would be some democracy. - Kin Hubbard

Happiness is being content with what you have, living in freedom and liberty, having a good family life and good friends. - Divyanka Tripathi

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it. - Terry Pratchett

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

A helping word to one in trouble is often like a switch in a railroad track ... an inch between a wreck and smooth, rolling prosperity. - Henry Ward Beecher

When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale. - John W. Gardner

A "No" uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a "Yes" merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble. - Mahatma Gandhi