How To Steal An Election

In politics nothing is contemptible. - Benjamin Disraeli

Under every stone lurks a politician. - Aristophanes

In politics the middle way is none at all. - John Adams

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

Government is an endless pursuit of new ways to tax. - Unknown

I'm not a politician. I've only got one face. - Brendan Behan

Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows - marriage does. - Groucho Marx

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

Commitments the voters don’t know about can't hurt you. - Ogden Nash

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

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

A politician will do anything to keep his job - even become a patriot. - William Randolph

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

Every woman dreams of her own political career and her own place in life. - Raisa M. Gorbachev

Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will. - Mikhail Bakunin

The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy. - Theodore White

A good politician, under democracy, is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar. - H L Mencken

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

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

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

Either the government will be given to us or we shall seize it by marching on Rome. - Benito Mussolini

I love Canada. I am from Canada. I will bash the Canadian government but never Canada. - Jason Priestley

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. - Robert Frost

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

So, if we lie to the government, it's a felony.
But if they lie to us, it's politics. - Bill Murray

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

A diplomat is someone who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you will look forward to the trip. - Caskie Stinnett

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

One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government. - Donald Trump

The largest party in America is neither the Democrats nor the Republicans. It's the party of non-voters. - Robert Reich

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. - John Kenneth Galbraith

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

They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men. - Clare Boothe Luce

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

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book. - Ronald Reagan

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

In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress. - John Adams

An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry. - George Eliot

NEED now means wanting someone else's money. GREED means wanting to keep your own. COMPASSION is when a politician arranges the transfer. - Joseph Sobran

Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don't vote. - Paul Harvey