Should Have Pulled Out

Politics is an inexact science. - Otto von Bismarck

Politics have no relation to morals. - Niccolo Machiavelli

I get to go to overseas places, like Canada. - Britney Spears

From my own personal life, abstinence works. - Rick Perry

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business. - Winston Churchill

If men were angels, no government would be necessary. - James Madison

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

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

Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets. - Ronald Reagan

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under. - H L Mencken

A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves. - Bertrand de Jouvenel

Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult. - Samuel Johnson

Canada has never been a melting pot; more like a tossed salad. - Arnold Edinborough

I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together. - Gerald R. Ford

I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. - Will Rogers

To lodge all power in one party and keep it there is to insure bad government. - Mark Twain

The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop. - P.J. O'Rourke

When you think of hockey, when you think of Canada, you think of Wayne Gretzky. - Joe Sakic

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power. - Aldous Huxley

Of all the tasks of government, the most basic is to protect its citizens from violence. - John Foster Dulles

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

Canada is a good country to be from. It has a gentler slower pace - it lends perspective. - Paul Anka

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

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

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. - Robert Frost

We don't come to Canada for our health. We can think of other ways of enjoying ourselves. - Prince Philip

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

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

A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have. - Thomas Jefferson

A diplomat is someone who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you will look forward to the trip. - Caskie Stinnett

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. - Frederic Bastiat

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

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

I've been to Canada, and I've always gotten the impression that I could take the country over in about two days. - Jon Stewart

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

It was revealed in a government survey published today that the Prime Minister is doing the work of two men, Laurel and Hardy. - Ronnie Corbett

The nine most terrifying words in the English language are,
"I'm from the government and I'm here to help." - Ronald Reagan

If you're skinny and you can't play hockey in Canada, you aren't left with a lot of options. I was left with running. - Malcolm Gladwell

Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. - Ronald Reagan

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