Should Have Pulled Out

All politics is local. - Thomas P O'Neil

Scotland is the Canada of England. - Rainn Wilson

In Canada, things are very honest. - Jim Pattison

Canada and space are a natural fit. - Marc Garneau

Everybody knows politics is a contact sport. - Barrack Obama

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

I don't even know what street Canada is on. - Al Capone

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

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

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

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance. - Robert Frost

Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows - marriage does. - Groucho Marx

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

We have the best government in the world... that money can buy. - Mark Twain

For every action, there is an equal and opposite government program. - Bob Wells

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

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

University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. - Henry Kissinger

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

I saw a notice which said "Drink Canada Dry" and I've just started. - Brendan Behan

Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated. - Will Rogers

I love Canada. I am from Canada. I will bash the Canadian government but never Canada. - Jason Priestley

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

In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man; if you want anything done, ask a woman. - Margaret Thatcher

I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government. - Woody Allen

Why pay money to have your family tree traced; go into politics and your opponents will do it for you. - Unknown

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

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

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

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

Canada has given us John Candy and Martin Short and Bill Shatner and Lord knows how many other wonderful performers. - Jamie Farr

It's especially hard if the government is not providing services, or is even conducting ethnic cleansing against you. - Paul Harvey

If the government was as afraid of disturbing the consumer as it is of disturbing business, this would be some democracy. - Kin Hubbard

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 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

If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep. - Will Rogers

Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the Government take care of him, better take a closer look at the American Indian. - Henry Ford

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