Canadian Senator Books

All politics is local. - Thomas P O'Neil

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

Politics is war by other measures. - Steve Bannon

Man is by nature a political animal. - Aristotle

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

Everybody knows politics is a contact sport. - Barrack Obama

What do you call a lawyer gone bad? Senator. - Marvin Lebman

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

Intelligence has nothing to do with politics. - Londo Molari

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

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun. - R Buckminster Fuller

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

Bulldozing: Going to sleep during a political speech. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy. - Martin L. Gross

You can't get rich in politics unless you're a crook. - Harry S Truman

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

An honest man in politics shines more than he would elsewhere. - Mark Twain

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

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

I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent. - Edith Sitwell

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

Politics is the chloroform of the Irish people, or, rather the hashish. - Oliver St. John Gogarty

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

Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated. - Will Rogers

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

Animals are like little children a bit. They're simple. They don't have politics driving them. - Annabelle Sabloff

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

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

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

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

Taxpayer - someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination. - Ronald Reagan

In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate. - Charles de Gaulle

Every country must be absolutely free to adopt the type of economic, political and social system that it considers convenient. - Fidel Castro

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

I am quite sure now that often in matters concerning religion and politics, a man's reasoning powers are not above the monkeys. - Mark Twain

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

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

I have respect for Senator McCain. I used to like him a lot. I supported him. I raised a lot of money for his campaign against President Obama. - Donald Trump

Political correctness is about denial, usually in the weasel circumlocutory jargon which distorts and evades and seldom stands up to honest analysis. - George M Fraser