How To Steal An Election

All politics is local. - Thomas P O'Neil

Politics makes strange red-fellows. - Will Rogers

Man is by nature a political animal. - Aristotle

Every country has the government it deserves. - Joseph de Maistre

Talk is cheap... except when Congress does it. - Unknown

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

There is no distinctly American criminal class - except Congress. - Mark Twain

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

A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country. - Tex Guinan

Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week. - Will Rogers

Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least. - Robert Byrne

To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy. - Will Durant

I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. - Will Rogers

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

Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing. - Bernard Baruch

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

I do have a political agenda. It's to have as few regulations as possible. - Dan Quayle

The short memories of American voters is what keeps our politicians in office. - Will Rogers

The fastest way for a politician to become an elder statesman is to lose an election. - Earl Wilson

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it. - Mark Twain

Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks. - Doug Larson

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

Politics, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong. - Richard Armour

Folks who don't know why America is the Land of Promise should be here during an election campaign. - Milton Berle

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

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

It is a win-win for the American people, an idea no conventional politician would have the guts to put forward. - Donald Trump

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

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost. - John Quincy Adams

Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. - Ronald Reagan

A politician should have three hats. One for throwing into the ring, one for talking through, and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected. - Carl Sandburg

I once said to my father, when I was a boy, 'Dad we need a third political party.' He said to me, 'I'll settle for a second.' - Ralph Nader

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