Ineptocracy: a system of government where the least capable to lead are elected by the least capable of producing, and where members of society least likely to sustain themselves or succeed, are rewarded with goods and services paid for by the confiscated wealth of a diminishing number of producers.
QuotaBillsAll 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