Speaking at a White House Press Conference about the coronavirus on April 23, 2020, Donald Trump said that he sees how disinfectant wipes out the virus in a minute, then continues to say: "Is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside, or almost a cleaning? It would be interesting to check that."
QuotaBillsAll politics is applesauce. - Will Rogers
Politics makes strange red-fellows. - Will Rogers
Man is by nature a political animal. - Aristotle
Politics is the art of the possible. - Otto von Bismarck
Politics have no relation to morals. - Niccolo Machiavelli
Television is democracy at its ugliest. - Paddy Chayefsky
Crime does not pay as well as politics. - Alfred E. Newman
Information is the currency of democracy. - Unknown
An educated people can be easily governed. - Frederick II
You campaign in poetry; you govern in prose. - Mario Cuomo
The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun. - R Buckminster Fuller
The Golden Rule has no place in a political campaign. - John J Ingalls
The art of government is the organization of idolatry. - George Bernard Shaw
Self-government won't work without self-discipline. - Paul Harvey
Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets. - Ronald Reagan
Government cannot and must not replace private initiative. - Kim Campbell
Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party. - Herbert Hoover
In politics, a lie unanswered becomes truth within 24 hours. - Willie Brown
I don't go around signin' no political documentaries. - Archie Bunker
Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under. - H L Mencken
A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves. - Bertrand de Jouvenel
Commitments the voters don’t know about can't hurt you. - Ogden Nash
There is no distinctly American criminal class - except Congress. - Mark Twain
It's a terrible shame that politics has become show business. - Sydney Pollack
Democracy! Bah! When I hear that word I reach for my feather Boa. - Allen Ginsberg
To deceive a diplomat speak the truth, he has no experience with it. - Greek Proverb
Men are governed only by serving them; the rule is without exception. - V. Cousin
Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week. - Will Rogers
Ultimatum: In diplomacy, a last demand before resorting to concessions - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy. - Will Durant
Politics is a profession where the paths of glory lead but to the gravy. - Billy Boy Franklin
Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. - Aristotle
Government can't give us anything without depriving us of something else. - Henry Hazlitt
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent. - Abraham Lincoln
To lodge all power in one party and keep it there is to insure bad government. - Mark Twain
I do have a political agenda. It's to have as few regulations as possible. - Dan Quayle
My sheer existence is like a political act to a lot of people. It's not to me. - Grimes
A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. - George Bernard Shaw
Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power. - Aldous Huxley
No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session. - Mark Twain
I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death. - Patrick Henry
Govern thy life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one, and read the other. - Thomas Fuller
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. - Robert Frost
Officialese: A government language where you can understand the words, but not the sentences - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
I have a wonderful make-up crew. They're the same people restoring the Statue of Liberty. - Bob Hope
Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner. - James Bovard
Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude. - Dale Carnegie
The difference between death and taxes is death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets. - Will Rogers
Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity. - Irving Kristol
Good thing we've still got politics in Texas - finest form of free entertainment ever invented. - Molly Ivins
I must study politics and war that my sons may have the liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. - John Adams
Such is the irresistible nature of truth that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing. - Thomas Paine
Americans should not go abroad to slay dragons they do not understand in the name of spreading democracy. - John Quincy Adams
A diplomat is someone who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you will look forward to the trip. - Caskie Stinnett
When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power. - Maggie Gallagher
The irony of the matter is that the future generations do not have a vote. In effect, we hold their proxy. - Charles J Hitch
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
One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government. - Donald Trump
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. - John Kenneth Galbraith
There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy. - Fidel Castro
We don't have inflation because we are living too well. We have it because government is living too well. - Ronald Reagan
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.)
Democracy means that anyone can grow up to be president, and anyone who doesn't grow up can be vice president. - Johnny Carson
At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else. - Shirley Chisholm
I have certain rules I live by. My first rule: I don't believe anything the government tells me. Nothing. Zero. - George Carlin
Politics is the only business where doing nothing other than making the other guy look bad is an acceptable outcome. - Mark Warner
I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress. - Ronald Reagan
If the government was as afraid of disturbing the consumer as it is of disturbing business, this would be some democracy. - Kin Hubbard
A democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates. - Gore Vidal
It would be nice to spend billions on schools and roads, but right now that money is desperately needed for political ads. - Andy Borowitz
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
It was revealed in a government survey published today that the Prime Minister is doing the work of two men, Laurel and Hardy. - Ronnie Corbett
The nine most terrifying words in the English language are,
"I'm from the government and I'm here to help." - Ronald Reagan
In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress. - John Adams
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
The workers' and peasants' government proposes to all warring peoples... negotiations leading to a just, democratic peace. - Lenin
A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life. - John Stuart Mill
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
Be known for pleasing others, espcecially if you govern them... Ruling others has one advantage: you can do more good than anyone else. - Baltasar Gracian
In a world of complex threats, our security and leadership depends on all elements of our power - including strong and principled diplomacy. - Barack Obama
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
In politics, as in womanizing, failure is decisive. It sheds its retrospective gloom on earlier endeavor which at the time seemed full of promise. - Malcolm Muggeridge
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
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