Unemployed Politicians

All politics is local. - Thomas P O'Neil

All politics is applesauce. - Will Rogers

Good government is good politics. - Richard J. Daley

Politics makes strange postmasters. - Kin Hubbard

Man is by nature a political animal. - Aristotle

In politics nothing is contemptible. - Benjamin Disraeli

In politics an absurdity is not a handicap. - Napoleon Bonaparte

From politics, it was an easy step to silence. - Jane Austen

All government, of course, is against liberty. - H L Mencken

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

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

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

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

We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy. - Martin L. Gross

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

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

When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results. - Calvin Coolidge

Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for. - Will Rogers

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

Government can't give us anything without depriving us of something else. - Henry Hazlitt

No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power. - Jacob Bronowski

The police force cannot be completely independent of the executive government. - P Chidambaram

Either the government will be given to us or we shall seize it by marching on Rome. - Benito Mussolini

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

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it. - Mark Twain

I think it's an absolute disaster that Australia, the government, allowed kangaroo culling. - Steve Irwin

So, if we lie to the government, it's a felony.
But if they lie to us, it's politics. - Bill Murray

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

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

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand. - Milton Friedman

Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds. - Thurgood Marshall

Harold MacMillan is a very intelligent man, who, as so often happens in politics, achieved supreme power too late. - Malcolm Muggeridge

I have certain rules I live by. My first rule: I don't believe anything the government tells me. Nothing. Zero. - George Carlin

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

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

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

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

I'm not interested in cutting the feet off my characters or stretching them to make them fit my certain political view. - Margaret Atwood

I am quite sure now that often in matters concerning religion and politics, a man's reasoning powers are not above the monkeys. - Mark Twain

I once said to my father, when I was a boy, 'Dad we need a third political party.' He said to me, 'I'll settle for a second.' - Ralph Nader