The Art Of Politics

The bad guys always get a vote. - Navy saying

Don't vote; it only encourages them. - Unknown

A penny saved is a Congressional oversight. - Hal Luyah

Man is not free unless government is limited. - Ronald Reagan

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

In politics, a lie unanswered becomes truth within 24 hours. - Willie Brown

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

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

I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together. - Gerald R. Ford

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Whenever a fellow tells me he's bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me. - Harry S Truman

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

In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man; if you want anything done, ask a woman. - Margaret Thatcher

We go by the major vote, and if the majority are insane, the sane must go to the hospital. - Horace Mann

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

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

A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them. - P.J. O'Rourke

I must study politics and war that my sons may have the liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. - John Adams

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

When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves. - George Pataki

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

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

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.)

A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election. - Bill Vaughan

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

In a world of complex threats, our security and leadership depends on all elements of our power - including strong and principled diplomacy. - Barack Obama

Being in politics is like being a football coach; you have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important. - Eugene McCarthy

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