Ineptocracy

All politics is applesauce. - Will Rogers

Good government is good politics. - Richard J. Daley

There is no gambling like politics. - Benjamin Disraeli

Politics makes strange postmasters. - Kin Hubbard

Under every stone lurks a politician. - Aristophanes

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts. - Henry Brooks Adams

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

Politics is the art of controlling your environment. - Hunter S. Thompson

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

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

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

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

An honest man in politics shines more than he would elsewhere. - Mark Twain

It's a terrible shame that politics has become show business. - Sydney Pollack

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

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

Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed. - Mao Zedong

Politics is the chloroform of the Irish people, or, rather the hashish. - Oliver St. John Gogarty

In politics, madame, you need two things: friends, but above all an enemy. - Brian Mulroney

Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. - John Kenneth Galbraith

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

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

I had a very happy childhood, which is unsuitable if you're going to be an Irish writer. - Maeve Binchy

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

Get thee glass eyes;
And, like a scurvy politician, seem
To see the things thou dost not. - William Shakespeare

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

Politics, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong. - Richard Armour

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

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

I won't eat anything that has intelligent life, but I would gladly eat a network executive or a politician. - Marty Feldman

At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else. - Shirley Chisholm

Politics is the only business where doing nothing other than making the other guy look bad is an acceptable outcome. - Mark Warner

One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are. - Cal Thomas

When it comes to politics, I sit down on a sofa and grab some popcorn - or sometimes I crouch down in order not to get shot. - Sergey Galitsky

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

Judge: 1. A law student who marks his own examination papers; 2. A lawyer who once knew a politician; 3. A man in a trying position. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

A politician should have three hats. One for throwing into the ring, one for talking through, and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected. - Carl Sandburg

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

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

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