Unemployed Politicians
What this country needs more of
QuotaBillsPolitics is war by other measures. - Steve Bannon
In politics nothing is contemptible. - Benjamin Disraeli
The gun is not out of Irish politics. - Ian Paisley
A jester unemployed is nobody's fool. - Danny Kaye
Everybody knows politics is a contact sport. - Barrack Obama
All government, of course, is against liberty. - H L Mencken
The problem with political jokes is they get elected. - Henry Cate, VII
Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory. - John Kenneth Galbraith
The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia. - Otto von Bismarck
What this country needs are more unemployed politicians. - Edward Langley
Government cannot and must not replace private initiative. - Kim Campbell
Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance. - Robert Frost
It's a terrible shame that politics has become show business. - Sydney Pollack
I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent. - Edith Sitwell
Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed. - Mao Zedong
Every woman dreams of her own political career and her own place in life. - Raisa M. Gorbachev
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. - Henry Kissinger
Government of the people, by the people, and for the pursuit of happiness. - Archie Bunker
The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop. - P.J. O'Rourke
No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power. - Jacob Bronowski
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
I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government. - Woody Allen
My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight. - John F Kennedy
There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you. - Will Rogers
It's our experience that political leaders don't always mean the opposite of what they say. - Abba Eban
The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning. - Theodor Adorno
Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you. - Pericles (430 B.C.)
Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless. - Milton Friedman
I have certain rules I live by. My first rule: I don't believe anything the government tells me. Nothing. Zero. - George Carlin
Very few of these panic-mongers have any personal knowledge of the countries that are already under blackshirt government. - Lord Rothermere
One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President. - Lyndon B. Johnson
Every country must be absolutely free to adopt the type of economic, political and social system that it considers convenient. - Fidel Castro
We're at a point in history where everyone needs to pay attention to politics. Too much is at stake for us to be apathetic. - Kevin Costner
In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other. - Voltaire
A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life. - John Stuart Mill
Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don't vote. - Paul Harvey
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
In politics, as in womanizing, failure is decisive. It sheds its retrospective gloom on earlier endeavor which at the time seemed full of promise. - Malcolm Muggeridge
Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments. - Isaac Asimov