Finally something that really is 'Politically Correct'...
QuotaBillsAll politics is local. - Thomas P O'Neil
Politics is an inexact science. - Otto von Bismarck
A week is a long time in politics. - Harold Wilson
Politics makes strange red-fellows. - Will Rogers
There is no gambling like politics. - Benjamin Disraeli
Politics is the art of the possible. - Otto von Bismarck
In politics nothing is contemptible. - Benjamin Disraeli
I am not a politician, but a soldier. - Idi Amin
Crime does not pay as well as politics. - Alfred E. Newman
In politics the middle way is none at all. - John Adams
Man is not free unless government is limited. - Ronald Reagan
Every country has the government it deserves. - Joseph de Maistre
From politics, it was an easy step to silence. - Jane Austen
All government, of course, is against liberty. - H L Mencken
I never saw anything funnier than Texas politics. - Molly Ivins
Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business. - Winston Churchill
Government is an endless pursuit of new ways to tax. - Unknown
The problem with political jokes is they get elected. - Henry Cate, VII
There can be no wise politics without thought beforehand. - Annie Besant
Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets. - Ronald Reagan
In politics, a lie unanswered becomes truth within 24 hours. - Willie Brown
Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows - marriage does. - Groucho Marx
We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy. - Martin L. Gross
You can't get rich in politics unless you're a crook. - Harry S Truman
We have the best government in the world... that money can buy. - Mark Twain
World War II was the last government program that really worked. - George Will
An honest politician is one who when he's bought stays bought. - Simon Cameron
In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant. - Charles de Gaulle
The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I'd be honest. - Rodney Dangerfield
The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government. - Edward Abbey
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought. - Simon Cameron
A politician will do anything to keep his job - even become a patriot. - William Randolph
In politics, madame, you need two things: friends, but above all an enemy. - Brian Mulroney
Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing. - Bernard Baruch
I do have a political agenda. It's to have as few regulations as possible. - Dan Quayle
The short memories of American voters is what keeps our politicians in office. - Will Rogers
The police force cannot be completely independent of the executive government. - P Chidambaram
Being a politician is a poor profession. Being a public servant is a noble one. - Herbert C Hoover
My sheer existence is like a political act to a lot of people. It's not to me. - Grimes
Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power. - Aldous Huxley
Either the government will be given to us or we shall seize it by marching on Rome. - Benito Mussolini
I love Canada. I am from Canada. I will bash the Canadian government but never Canada. - Jason Priestley
Whenever a fellow tells me he's bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me. - Harry S Truman
In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man; if you want anything done, ask a woman. - Margaret Thatcher
We go by the major vote, and if the majority are insane, the sane must go to the hospital. - Horace Mann
My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight. - John F Kennedy
Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it. - Mark Twain
What right does Congress have to go around making laws just because they deem it necessary? - Marion Barry
I think it's an absolute disaster that Australia, the government, allowed kangaroo culling. - Steve Irwin
What is the first part of politics? Education. The second? Education. And the third? Education. - Jules Michelet
The difference between death and taxes is death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets. - Will Rogers
People want change but not too much change. Finding that balance is tricky for every politician. - Eleanor Clift
So, if we lie to the government, it's a felony.
But if they lie to us, it's politics. - Bill Murray
A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them. - P.J. O'Rourke
Get thee glass eyes;
And, like a scurvy politician, seem
To see the things thou dost not. - William Shakespeare
I must study politics and war that my sons may have the liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. - John Adams
Ex-Presidents of the United States get state subsidies. Not so in Russia. You get no government support. - Mikhail Gorbachev
The man who can make others laugh secures more votes for a measure than the man who forces them to think. - Malcolm de Chazal
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
Politics: Poli, a Latin word meaning "many"; and tics, meaning "bloodsucking creatures." - Robin Williams
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. - John Kenneth Galbraith
If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner. - H L Mencken
If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand. - Milton Friedman
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.)
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
Canada's political parties spend a few years in opposition and then govern as if it's permanent payback time. - Bob Rae
I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress. - Ronald Reagan
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
I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend. - Thomas Jefferson
When it comes to politics, I sit down on a sofa and grab some popcorn - or sometimes I crouch down in order not to get shot. - Sergey Galitsky
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
Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. - Ambrose Bierce
The nine most terrifying words in the English language are,
"I'm from the government and I'm here to help." - Ronald Reagan
In Mexico, an air-conditioner is called a "politician" because it makes a lot of noise but doesn't work very well. - Len Deighton
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
I am quite sure now that often in matters concerning religion and politics, a man's reasoning powers are not above the monkeys. - Mark Twain
Papers say: 'Congress is deadlocked and can't act.' I think that is the greatest blessing that could befall this country. - Will Rogers
Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people. - Joe Biden
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
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
The best way to lose weight is to close your mouth - something very difficult for a politician. Or watch your food - just watch it, don't eat it. - Edward I Kock
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