Reboot

All politics is local. - Thomas P O'Neil

Good government is good politics. - Richard J. Daley

Crime does not pay as well as politics. - Alfred E. Newman

Everybody knows politics is a contact sport. - Barrack Obama

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

The problem with political jokes is they get elected. - Henry Cate, VII

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

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

Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote. - George Jean Nathan

Dilemma: A politician trying to save both his faces at once - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows - marriage does. - Groucho Marx

A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top. - James Reston

Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide issues. - George Will

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

Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week. - Will Rogers

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

Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor. - Lady Bird Johnson

Government of the people, by the people, and for the pursuit of happiness. - Archie Bunker

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

The short memories of American voters is what keeps our politicians in office. - Will Rogers

Whenever a fellow tells me he's bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me. - Harry S Truman

That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves. - Thomas Jefferson

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

There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you. - Will Rogers

Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it. - Tom Robbins

What is the first part of politics? Education. The second? Education. And the third? Education. - Jules Michelet

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

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

The man who can make others laugh secures more votes for a measure than the man who forces them to think. - Malcolm de Chazal

One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government. - Donald Trump

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

I have certain rules I live by. My first rule: I don't believe anything the government tells me. Nothing. Zero. - George Carlin

He is one of those wise philanthropists who, in a time of famine, would vote for nothing but a supply of toothpicks. - Douglas Jerrold

It's especially hard if the government is not providing services, or is even conducting ethnic cleansing against you. - Paul Harvey

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend. - Thomas Jefferson

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

NEED now means wanting someone else's money. GREED means wanting to keep your own. COMPASSION is when a politician arranges the transfer. - Joseph Sobran

If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep. - Will Rogers

I once said to my father, when I was a boy, 'Dad we need a third political party.' He said to me, 'I'll settle for a second.' - Ralph Nader

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