Should Have Pulled Out

Canada is hockey. - Mike Weir

Diplomacy: Lying in state. - Oliver Herford

Politics have no relation to morals. - Niccolo Machiavelli

The gun is not out of Irish politics. - Ian Paisley

I can abstain; but I can't be moderate. - Samuel Johnson

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

Canada has two emblems - the beaver and the maple. - John W. Dawson

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

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

Canada is like a loft apartment over a really great party. - Robin Williams

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

In Canada, nobody is ever overthrown because nobody gives a damn. - Mordecai Richler

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

Every woman dreams of her own political career and her own place in life. - Raisa M. Gorbachev

Government of the people, by the people, and for the pursuit of happiness. - Archie Bunker

Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will. - Mikhail Bakunin

Canada is the only country founded on the relentless pursuit of the rodent. - Preston Manning

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

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

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

Canada is the only country in the world that knows how to live without an identity. - Marshall McLuhan

I'm kinda disapointed that Canada isn't like the South Park movie said it was. - Joel Madden

I love working in Canada. The ovation is great. It makes me feel like I'm the top dog. - Owen Hart

That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves. - Thomas Jefferson

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

What is the first part of politics? Education. The second? Education. And the third? Education. - Jules Michelet

If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals. - Leo Tolstoy

Trudeau's contribution was not to build Canada but to destroy it, and I had to come in and save it. - Brian Mulroney

Ex-Presidents of the United States get state subsidies. Not so in Russia. You get no government support. - Mikhail Gorbachev

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. - John Kenneth Galbraith

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. - Plato

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

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

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

Canada is a balloon-puncturing country. You are not really allowed to be an icon unless you also make an idiot of yourself. - Margaret Atwood

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

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

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

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

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