How To Steal An Election

Politics is an inexact science. - Otto von Bismarck

Politics is war by other measures. - Steve Bannon

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

Voters want a fraud they can believe in. - Will Durst

In politics an absurdity is not a handicap. - Napoleon Bonaparte

In Congress, it's all pork, all the time. - Jim Cooper

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts. - Henry Brooks Adams

Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you. - Ralph Nader

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

Most bad government results from too much government. - Thomas Jefferson

The Golden Rule has no place in a political campaign. - John J Ingalls

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

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

Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity. - Albert Einstein

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

Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest thing in the nicest way. - Isaac Goldberg

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

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

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

Government of the people, by the people, and for the pursuit of happiness. - Archie Bunker

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

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

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business. - Tom Robbins

The secret of political bargaining is to look more strong than what you really are. - Subhash Bose

Everyone wants to eat at the government's table, but nobody wants to do the dishes. - Werner Finck

I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government. - Woody Allen

I am on your Walk of Fame in Toronto. My sense of humour is Canadian. But I can't vote. - Donald Sutherland

Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But then I repeat myself. - Mark Twain

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

People want change but not too much change. Finding that balance is tricky for every politician. - Eleanor Clift

Get thee glass eyes;
And, like a scurvy politician, seem
To see the things thou dost not. - William Shakespeare

The man who can make others laugh secures more votes for a measure than the man who forces them to think. - Malcolm de Chazal

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

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

Canada's political parties spend a few years in opposition and then govern as if it's permanent payback time. - Bob Rae

Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. - Ambrose Bierce

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

The workers' and peasants' government proposes to all warring peoples... negotiations leading to a just, democratic peace. - Lenin

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. - Aristotle