Unemployed Politicians

All politics is local. - Thomas P O'Neil

Good government is good politics. - Richard J. Daley

Everybody knows politics is a contact sport. - Barrack Obama

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

A government of law is a government of lawyers. - Saying

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

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

Government is an endless pursuit of new ways to tax. - Unknown

The art of government is the organization of idolatry. - George Bernard Shaw

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

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

Unemployment insurance is a pre-paid vacation for freeloaders. - Ronald Reagan

War has rules, mud wrestling has rules - politics has no rules. - Ross Perot

The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world. - Reinhold Niebuhr

I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat. - Will Rogers

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

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

Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure. - Bertrand Russell

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

The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy. - Theodore White

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

A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. - George Bernard Shaw

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. - P.J. O'Rourke

My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight. - John F Kennedy

The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare. - Daniel P Moynihan

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

When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power. - Maggie Gallagher

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

Politics: Poli, a Latin word meaning "many"; and tics, meaning "bloodsucking creatures." - Robin Williams

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

The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning. - Theodor Adorno

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

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

Canada's political parties spend a few years in opposition and then govern as if it's permanent payback time. - Bob Rae

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

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

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

Every country must be absolutely free to adopt the type of economic, political and social system that it considers convenient. - Fidel Castro

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

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my country. I make up for lost time when I am at home. - Winston Churchill