How To Steal An Election

There is no gambling like politics. - Benjamin Disraeli

Feudalism: It's your Count that votes - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business. - Winston Churchill

If men were angels, no government would be necessary. - James Madison

Dilemma: A politician trying to save both his faces at once - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

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

An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought. - Simon Cameron

Ultimatum: In diplomacy, a last demand before resorting to concessions - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote. - William E. Simon

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

Government can't give us anything without depriving us of something else. - Henry Hazlitt

The police force cannot be completely independent of the executive government. - P Chidambaram

Diplomacy is the art of saying, "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock. - Will Rogers

My sheer existence is like a political act to a lot of people. It's not to me. - Grimes

A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. - George Bernard Shaw

The election is not very far off when a candidate can recognize you across the street. - Kin Hubbard

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

We could certainly slow the aging process down if it had to work its way through Congress. - Will Rogers

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. - George Bernard Shaw

What right does Congress have to go around making laws just because they deem it necessary? - Marion Barry

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

The difference between death and taxes is death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets. - 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

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

Democracy is very different in U.S. and A. from Kazakhstan. In America, woman can vote, but horse cannot! - Borat Sagdiyev

This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer. - Will Rogers

I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses. - Victor Hugo

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

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.)

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

Frankly, I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry. - Joseph Heller

He is one of those wise philanthropists who, in a time of famine, would vote for nothing but a supply of toothpicks. - Douglas Jerrold

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

I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other. - Napoleon Bonaparte

It was revealed in a government survey published today that the Prime Minister is doing the work of two men, Laurel and Hardy. - Ronnie Corbett

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

In politics, as in womanizing, failure is decisive. It sheds its retrospective gloom on earlier endeavor which at the time seemed full of promise. - Malcolm Muggeridge