![]() Politics is an inexact science. - Otto von Bismarck Good government is good politics. - Richard J. Daley In politics the middle way is none at all. - John Adams In politics an absurdity is not a handicap. - Napoleon Bonaparte The No. 1 cause of bankruptcies is medical bills. - Michael Moore Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you. - Ralph Nader Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows - marriage does. - Groucho Marx Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity. - Albert Einstein 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 society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves. - Bertrand de Jouvenel It's a terrible shame that politics has become show business. - Sydney Pollack For every action, there is an equal and opposite government program. - Bob Wells The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop. - P.J. O'Rourke 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 Personally, I'm against political jokes. Too often they get elected to office. - Henny Youngman A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. - George Bernard Shaw I love Canada. I am from Canada. I will bash the Canadian government but never Canada. - Jason Priestley Of all the tasks of government, the most basic is to protect its citizens from violence. - John Foster Dulles Show me a Jewish boy who doesn't go to medical school and I'll show you a lawyer. - Milton Berle I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government. - Woody Allen A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. - Robert Frost Ronald Reagan knew who he was. Barack Obama is still working through that equation politically. - Joe Scarborough The road to medical knowledge is through the pathological museum and not through an apothecary's shop. - William Withey Gull The only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in keeping their money in their own pockets. - Lysander Spooner In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate. - Charles de Gaulle One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are. - Cal Thomas What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those? - Gilbert Highet Very few of these panic-mongers have any personal knowledge of the countries that are already under blackshirt government. - Lord Rothermere I'm not interested in cutting the feet off my characters or stretching them to make them fit my certain political view. - Margaret Atwood Even a race to Obama, she was gonna beat Obama. I don't know who would be worse, I don't know, how could it be worse? - Donald Trump Only one rule in medical ethics need concern you: that action on your part which best conserves the interest of your patient. - Martin H. Fischer The workers' and peasants' government proposes to all warring peoples... negotiations leading to a just, democratic peace. - Lenin 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 If Obama resigns from office NOW, thereby doing a great service to the country, I will give him free lifetime golf at any one of my courses. - Donald Trump In a world of complex threats, our security and leadership depends on all elements of our power - including strong and principled diplomacy. - Barack Obama 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 Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don't vote. - Paul Harvey Our ancestors believed in magic, prayers, trickery, browbeating and bullying. I think it would be fair to sum that up as 'Irish politics'. - Flann O'Brien see also Government & Political Sections |
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