Once upon a time, there was a Presidential election that was too close to call. Neither the Republican presidential candidate nor the Democratic presidential candidate had enough votes to win the election. All politics is local. - Thomas P O'Neil All politics is applesauce. - Will Rogers Man is not free unless government is limited. - Ronald Reagan A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle. - Irina Dunn Electric Eel: Fish that thrives in strong currents - Daffynitions joe-ks.com Be patient and calm; no one can catch a fish with anger. - Herbert Hoover Don't bargain for fish which are still in the water. - India Proverb Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets. - Ronald Reagan A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves. - Bertrand de Jouvenel 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 Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will. - Mikhail Bakunin A dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream. - WC Fields Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure. - Bertrand Russell Clement Attlee reminds me of a dead fish before it has had time to stiffen. - George Orwell Any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming. - John Steinbeck The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop. - P.J. O'Rourke Hillary Clinton is not going to be able to create jobs, I will tell you right now. - Donald Trump Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated. - Will Rogers Governing a large country is like frying a small fish. You spoil it with too much poking. - Lao-Tzu Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. - George Bernard Shaw My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight. - John F Kennedy What is the first part of politics? Education. The second? Education. And the third? Education. - Jules Michelet When they see me holding fish, they can see that I am comfortable with kings as well as with paupers. - Imelda Marcos Ex-Presidents of the United States get state subsidies. Not so in Russia. You get no government support. - Mikhail Gorbachev One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government. - Donald Trump The largest party in America is neither the Democrats nor the Republicans. It's the party of non-voters. - Robert Reich The seeds of learning can grow almost anywhere. Trump University and my other education-related ventures like... - Donald Trump Harold MacMillan is a very intelligent man, who, as so often happens in politics, achieved supreme power too late. - Malcolm Muggeridge Everyone has a skeleton in their closet. The difference between Bill Clinton and myself is that he has a walk-in closet. - Pat Buchanan The Republicans have all of the cards. And this is the time to get rid of Obamacare. This is the time to make the great deal. - Donald Trump 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 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 What's the two things they tell you are healthiest to eat? Chicken and fish. You know what you should do? Combine them, eat a penguin. - Dave Attell Memory is a net: one finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my country. I make up for lost time when I am at home. - Winston Churchill 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 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 I was thrown out of college during my freshman year, for cheating on my metaphysics final - I looked within the soul of the boy sitting next to me. - Woody Allen see also Fishing & Political Sections Cheating Canadian Politician (2004) Cheating U.S. Politician Version (2004) |
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