Canadian Senator Books

All politics is local. - Thomas P O'Neil

Good government is good politics. - Richard J. Daley

Politics makes strange red-fellows. - Will Rogers

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

In politics nothing is contemptible. - Benjamin Disraeli

Political correctness is tyranny with manners. - Charlton Heston

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

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

The art of government is the organization of idolatry. - George Bernard Shaw

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

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

Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators. - Will Rogers

Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party. - Herbert Hoover

In politics, a lie unanswered becomes truth within 24 hours. - Willie Brown

I don't go around signin' no political documentaries. - Archie Bunker

A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top. - James Reston

We have the best government in the world... that money can buy. - Mark Twain

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

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

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

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

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

Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure. - Bertrand Russell

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

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

The reason there are two senators for each state is so that one can be the designated driver. - Jay Leno

I think it's an absolute disaster that Australia, the government, allowed kangaroo culling. - Steve Irwin

What is the first part of politics? Education. The second? Education. And the third? Education. - Jules Michelet

It's our experience that political leaders don't always mean the opposite of what they say. - Abba Eban

The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare. - Daniel P Moynihan

When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power. - Maggie Gallagher

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

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

Politics is the only business where doing nothing other than making the other guy look bad is an acceptable outcome. - Mark Warner

One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are. - Cal Thomas

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

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men. - Plato

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

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