Fine Mess

Diplomacy: Lying in state. - Oliver Herford

All politics is applesauce. - Will Rogers

Good taste is the enemy of comedy. - Mel Brooks

Politics is war by other measures. - Steve Bannon

Politics makes strange postmasters. - Kin Hubbard

Man is by nature a political animal. - Aristotle

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

In politics the middle way is none at all. - John Adams

Man is not free unless government is limited. - Ronald Reagan

Intelligence has nothing to do with politics. - Londo Molari

Politics is just show business for ugly people. - Jay Leno

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

Comedy is society protecting itself - with a smile. - J.B. Priestley

Politics is the art of controlling your environment. - Hunter S. Thompson

You can't get rich in politics unless you're a crook. - Harry S Truman

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

Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

War has rules, mud wrestling has rules - politics has no rules. - Ross Perot

World War II was the last government program that really worked. - George Will

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

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

In politics, madame, you need two things: friends, but above all an enemy. - Brian Mulroney

No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power. - Jacob Bronowski

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

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business. - Tom Robbins

No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session. - Mark Twain

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people, by the people, for the people. - Oscar Wilde

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

Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity. - Irving Kristol

You can't study comedy; it's within you. It's a personality. My humor is an attitude. - Don Rickles

I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing. - H L Mencken

It's triple the Trump this season... I invited my children, Don Jr. and Ivanka into the boardroom. - Donald Trump

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

Such is the irresistible nature of truth that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing. - Thomas Paine

We don't have inflation because we are living too well. We have it because government is living too well. - Ronald Reagan

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

I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress. - Ronald Reagan

Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary. - Reinhold Niebuhr

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

Political correctness is about denial, usually in the weasel circumlocutory jargon which distorts and evades and seldom stands up to honest analysis. - George M Fraser