Canadians Watching U.S. Politics

Diplomacy: Lying in state. - Oliver Herford

Politics is an inexact science. - Otto von Bismarck

The bad guys always get a vote. - Navy saying

A week is a long time in politics. - Harold Wilson

Forgetfulness is a form of freedom. - Kahlil Gibran

The gun is not out of Irish politics. - Ian Paisley

Focus: What Canadian politicians lack. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

The freedom of birds is an insult to me. - Cormac McCarthy

When lost, freedom is difficult to regain. - Slavomir Rawicz

A penny saved is a Congressional oversight. - Hal Luyah

Everybody knows politics is a contact sport. - Barrack Obama

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

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom. - Hannah Arendt

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

Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you. - Ralph Nader

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

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

Self-government won't work without self-discipline. - Paul Harvey

We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home. - Edward R. Murrow

Political War: One in which everyone shoots from the lip - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party. - Herbert Hoover

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

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

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

In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant. - Charles de Gaulle

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

Once a man has tasted freedom, he will never be content to be a slave. - Walt Disney

A politician is a man who approaches every problem with an open mouth. - Adlai Stevenson

We would all like to vote for the best man but he is never a candidate. - Kin Hubbard

Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower. - Hans Christian Andersen

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

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

Personally, I'm against political jokes. Too often they get elected to office. - Henny Youngman

The secret of political bargaining is to look more strong than what you really are. - Subhash Bose

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

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

Nothing changes the gender equation more significantly than women's economic freedom. - Gloria Steinem

If crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? - George Carlin

I am on your Walk of Fame in Toronto. My sense of humour is Canadian. But I can't vote. - Donald Sutherland

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

Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires. - Bertrand Russell

Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it. - Tom Robbins

There is freedom in forgiveness, and it's not that hard to do once you get into the habit. - Dana Perino

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river. - Nikita Khrushchev

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

It's our experience that political leaders don't always mean the opposite of what they say. - Abba Eban

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

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

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

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

Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds. - John P Barlow

We don't have inflation because we are living too well. We have it because government is living too well. - Ronald Reagan

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

Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless. - Milton Friedman

Freedom has many difficulties and democracy is not perfect. But we have never had to put a wall up to keep our people in. - John F Kennedy

I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other. - Napoleon Bonaparte

Yoga is invigoration in relaxation. Freedom in routine. Confidence through self control. Energy within and energy without. - Ymber Delecto

It would be nice to spend billions on schools and roads, but right now that money is desperately needed for political ads. - Andy Borowitz

It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen. - George MacDonald

In Mexico, an air-conditioner is called a "politician" because it makes a lot of noise but doesn't work very well. - Len Deighton

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

Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people. - Joe Biden

I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own. - Margaret Atwood

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