Obama Gone Yet?

A week is a long time in politics. - Harold Wilson

There is no gambling like politics. - Benjamin Disraeli

Oh, that lovely title, ex-president. - Dwight D Eisenhower

Vice-President: A cow's fifth teat. - Harry S Truman

From politics, it was an easy step to silence. - Jane Austen

When I'm president, everyone gets a free pony. - Vermin Supreme

Government is an endless pursuit of new ways to tax. - Unknown

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

The presidency is temporary, but the family is permanent. - Yvonne de Gaulle

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

In my country we go to prison first and then become president. - Nelson Mandela

The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep. - George Stephanopolous

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

There is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot. - Gary Hart

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

Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will. - Mikhail Bakunin

I do have a political agenda. It's to have as few regulations as possible. - Dan Quayle

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

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. - George Bernard Shaw

I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government. - Woody Allen

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

The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare. - Daniel P Moynihan

Obama and his attack dogs have nothing but hate and anger in their hearts and spew it whenever possible. - Donald Trump

I don't look for much to come out of government ownership as long as we have Democrats and Republicans. - Kin Hubbard

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. - John Kenneth Galbraith

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand. - Milton Friedman

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

Frankly, I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry. - Joseph Heller

There are advantages to being President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret. - Ronald Reagan

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

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

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men. - Plato

The Obama representatives like Robert Gibbs attack people viciously, but people like me will not be silent and will answer them back. - Donald Trump

Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other. - Oscar Ameringer

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 have respect for Senator McCain. I used to like him a lot. I supported him. I raised a lot of money for his campaign against President Obama. - Donald Trump

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: "President Can't Swim." - Lyndon B. Johnson

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