If I Had A City

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

Politics have no relation to morals. - Niccolo Machiavelli

Man is not free unless government is limited. - Ronald Reagan

Political correctness is tyranny with manners. - Charlton Heston

I never saw anything funnier than Texas politics. - Molly Ivins

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business. - Winston Churchill

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

If men were angels, no government would be necessary. - James Madison

Government cannot and must not replace private initiative. - Kim Campbell

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance. - Robert Frost

Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party. - Herbert Hoover

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

We have the best government in the world... that money can buy. - Mark Twain

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

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

I don't think about financial success as the measurement of my success. - Christie Hefner

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

No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power. - Jacob Bronowski

The police force cannot be completely independent of the executive government. - P Chidambaram

It isn't necessary to have relatives in Kansas City in order to be unhappy. - Groucho Marx

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power. - Aldous Huxley

An expenditure of words without income of ideas will lead to intellectual bankruptcy. - Ravi Zacharias

My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight. - John F Kennedy

His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy. - Woody Allen

A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have. - Thomas Jefferson

Ex-Presidents of the United States get state subsidies. Not so in Russia. You get no government support. - Mikhail Gorbachev

When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power. - Maggie Gallagher

A good financial plan is a road map that shows us exactly how the choices we make today will affect our future. - Alexa Von Tobel

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

But here's what I've learned in this war, in this country, in this city: to love the miracle of having been born. - Oriana Fallaci

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

I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other. - Napoleon Bonaparte

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

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

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

Every country must be absolutely free to adopt the type of economic, political and social system that it considers convenient. - Fidel Castro

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

A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life. - John Stuart Mill

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

Lincolnshire is the Idaho of England. You were either going to drive a tractor for the rest of your life or head for the city to work in a factory. - Bernie Taupin