Canadians Watching U.S. Politics

Politics is the art of the possible. - Otto von Bismarck

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

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

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

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

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

I love a dog. He does nothing for political reasons. - Will Rogers

You have freedom when you're easy in your harness. - Robert Frost

American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense. - Ed Howe

Sudafed: Brought litigation against a government official - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

The patriot's blood is the seed of Freedom's tree. - Thomas Campbell

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

There is no such thing as part freedom: it is all or nothing. - Nelson Mandela

Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

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

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

You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think. - Milton Berle

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

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

In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is freedom, in water there is bacteria. - Ben Franklin

A filmmaker we almost lost to politics... my friend and colleague, Warren Beatty. - Jack Nicholson

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

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

Politicians who complain about the media are like sailors who complain about the sea. - Enoch Powell

The indignation of politicians is NOT a good measure of the gravity of any situation. - Paul Harvey

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

People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid. - Soren Kierkegaard

We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway. - Will Durant

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

We could certainly slow the aging process down if it had to work its way through Congress. - Will Rogers

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

Officialese: A government language where you can understand the words, but not the sentences - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Freedom, privileges, options, must constantly be exercised, even at the risk of inconvenience. - Jack Vance

What is the first part of politics? Education. The second? Education. And the third? Education. - Jules Michelet

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

Animals are like little children a bit. They're simple. They don't have politics driving them. - Annabelle Sabloff

I can remember when Democrats believed that it was the duty of America to fight for freedom over tyranny. - Zell Miller

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it. - Thomas Paine

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

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

If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner. - H L Mencken

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

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.)

What politicians want to create is irreversible change because when you leave office someone changes it back again. - Estelle Morris

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

A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch, and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it. - Aldous Huxley

What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those? - Gilbert Highet

I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress. - Ronald Reagan

Of course God knew what would happen if they used their freedom the wrong way: apparently, He thought it worth the risk. - C S Lewis

Very few of these panic-mongers have any personal knowledge of the countries that are already under blackshirt government. - Lord Rothermere

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

The most dangerous person of the world is a member of the United States Congress just home from a three-day fact-finding trip. - Johnny Isakson

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 nine most terrifying words in the English language are,
"I'm from the government and I'm here to help." - Ronald Reagan

We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought. - Bertrand Russell

Papers say: 'Congress is deadlocked and can't act.' I think that is the greatest blessing that could befall this country. - Will Rogers

Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other. - Oscar Ameringer

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

We have believed - and we do believe now - that freedom is indivisible, that peace is indivisible, that economic prosperity is indivisible. - Indira Gandhi

Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the Government take care of him, better take a closer look at the American Indian. - Henry Ford

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