The Art Of Politics

Diplomacy: Lying in state. - Oliver Herford

The bad guys always get a vote. - Navy saying

Politics is war by other measures. - Steve Bannon

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

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

A politician... one that would circumvent God. - William Shakespeare

I never vote for anyone; I always vote against. - WC Fields

I never saw anything funnier than Texas politics. - Molly Ivins

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

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

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory. - John Kenneth Galbraith

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

Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets. - Ronald Reagan

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

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

War has rules, mud wrestling has rules - politics has no rules. - Ross Perot

Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide issues. - George Will

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

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

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

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

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

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power. - Aldous Huxley

Of all the tasks of government, the most basic is to protect its citizens from violence. - John Foster Dulles

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. - Winston Churchill

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

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

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

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

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

Demagogue: A politician who can rock the boat and persuade everyone else that they're in a terrible storm - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

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

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

One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President. - Lyndon B. Johnson

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

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

The best way to lose weight is to close your mouth - something very difficult for a politician. Or watch your food - just watch it, don't eat it. - Edward I Kock

Regarded simply as a politician, and compared with the other leading political figures of our time, how clean a smell he has managed to leave behind. - Mahatma Gandhi