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Politics is an inexact science. - Otto von Bismarck

Politics makes strange red-fellows. - Will Rogers

Under every stone lurks a politician. - Aristophanes

The gun is not out of Irish politics. - Ian Paisley

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

Political correctness is tyranny with manners. - Charlton Heston

All government, of course, is against liberty. - H L Mencken

A politician... one that would circumvent God. - William Shakespeare

A government of law is a government of lawyers. - Saying

I love a dog. He does nothing for political reasons. - Will Rogers

Most bad government results from too much government. - Thomas Jefferson

I'm not a politician. I've only got one face. - Brendan Behan

The art of government is the organization of idolatry. - George Bernard Shaw

The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia. - Otto von Bismarck

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

A diplomat is a man who thinks twice before he says nothing. - Unknown

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

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

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

An honest politician is one who when he's bought stays bought. - Simon Cameron

For every action, there is an equal and opposite government program. - Bob Wells

I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat. - Will Rogers

The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I'd be honest. - Rodney Dangerfield

An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought. - Simon Cameron

A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country. - Tex Guinan

Ultimatum: In diplomacy, a last demand before resorting to concessions - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

Politics is the chloroform of the Irish people, or, rather the hashish. - Oliver St. John Gogarty

Politics is a profession where the paths of glory lead but to the gravy. - Billy Boy Franklin

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

The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop. - P.J. O'Rourke

The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy. - Theodore White

American Politics: A form of socialism for the rich, including the politicians. - Gregory Nunn

A good politician, under democracy, is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar. - H L Mencken

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

The fastest way for a politician to become an elder statesman is to lose an election. - Earl Wilson

We could certainly slow the aging process down if it had to work its way through Congress. - Will Rogers

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

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

Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But then I repeat myself. - Mark Twain

People want change but not too much change. Finding that balance is tricky for every politician. - Eleanor Clift

Fang and I are always fighting. When we get up in the morning, we don't kiss; we touch gloves. - Phyllis Diller

A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them. - P.J. O'Rourke

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

Animals are like little children a bit. They're simple. They don't have politics driving them. - Annabelle Sabloff

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

Politics: Poli, a Latin word meaning "many"; and tics, meaning "bloodsucking creatures." - Robin Williams

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

It is a win-win for the American people, an idea no conventional politician would have the guts to put forward. - Donald Trump

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.)

Harold MacMillan is a very intelligent man, who, as so often happens in politics, achieved supreme power too late. - Malcolm Muggeridge

The business of government is to keep the government out of business - that is, unless business needs government aid. - Will Rogers

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

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy. - Groucho Marx

Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. - Ambrose Bierce

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

We're at a point in history where everyone needs to pay attention to politics. Too much is at stake for us to be apathetic. - Kevin Costner

The workers' and peasants' government proposes to all warring peoples... negotiations leading to a just, democratic peace. - Lenin

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

Being in politics is like being a football coach; you have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important. - Eugene McCarthy

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

Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments. - Isaac Asimov