Fine Mess

Vote early and vote often. - Al Capone

Good taste is the enemy of comedy. - Mel Brooks

Politics is the art of the possible. - Otto von Bismarck

Television is democracy at its ugliest. - Paddy Chayefsky

Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs. - Isaiah Berlin

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious. - Peter Ustinov

Bulldozing: Going to sleep during a political speech. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Liberty: One of Imagination's most previous possessions. - Ambrose Bierce

Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest thing in the nicest way. - Isaac Goldberg

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot. - Charlie Chaplin

Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy. - Sir Peter Ustinov

What a fine comedy this world would be if one did not play a part in it. - Denis Diderot

The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel. - Horace Walpole

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

Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing. - Bernard Baruch

Liberty is the right to do what I like; license, the right to do what you like. - Bertrand Russell

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

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

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

There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt. - Erma Bombeck

I am on your Walk of Fame in Toronto. My sense of humour is Canadian. But I can't vote. - Donald Sutherland

There are three basic rules for great comedy. Unfortunately no-one can remember what they are. - Arthur Smith

The difference between death and taxes is death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets. - Will Rogers

In a democracy, the one thing that cannot be done is to destroy its trust, its hope, its idealism. - Teresa Heinz

It's our experience that political leaders don't always mean the opposite of what they say. - Abba Eban

My love life is terrible. The last time I was inside a woman was when I visited the Statue of Liberty. - Woody Allen

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

I don't look for much to come out of government ownership as long as we have Democrats and Republicans. - Kin Hubbard

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

Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism. - Claude McKay

They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men. - Clare Boothe Luce

The seeds of learning can grow almost anywhere. Trump University and my other education-related ventures like... - Donald Trump

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

Frankly, I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry. - Joseph Heller

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men. - Plato

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

We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both. - Louis D. Branders

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

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

Regarded simply as a politician, and compared with the other leading political figures of our time, how clean a smell he has managed to leave behind. - Mahatma Gandhi