Mr. Dressup II

All politics is local. - Thomas P O'Neil

Feudalism: It's your Count that votes - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Everybody knows politics is a contact sport. - Barrack Obama

Every country has the government it deserves. - Joseph de Maistre

A politician... one that would circumvent God. - William Shakespeare

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

I love a dog. He does nothing for political reasons. - Will Rogers

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

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

There can be no wise politics without thought beforehand. - Annie Besant

Government cannot and must not replace private initiative. - Kim Campbell

A diplomat is a man who thinks twice before he says nothing. - Unknown

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

An honest politician is one who when he's bought stays bought. - Simon Cameron

I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent. - Edith Sitwell

To deceive a diplomat speak the truth, he has no experience with it. - Greek Proverb

A politician is a man who approaches every problem with an open mouth. - Adlai Stevenson

Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed. - Mao Zedong

Politics is the chloroform of the Irish people, or, rather the hashish. - Oliver St. John Gogarty

Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote. - William E. Simon

Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure. - Bertrand Russell

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

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

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

Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it. - Laurence J Peter

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

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

He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career. - George Bernard Shaw

The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare. - Daniel P Moynihan

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

If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner. - H L Mencken

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.)

At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else. - Shirley Chisholm

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

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

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

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

Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other. - Oscar Ameringer

When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale. - John W. Gardner