Conservative Plant

All politics is local. - Thomas P O'Neil

In politics nothing is contemptible. - Benjamin Disraeli

In politics the middle way is none at all. - John Adams

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

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

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

Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote. - George Jean Nathan

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

In politics, a lie unanswered becomes truth within 24 hours. - Willie Brown

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

Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together. - Gerald R. Ford

Commitments the voters don’t know about can't hurt you. - Ogden Nash

The Wright Brothers flew through the smoke screen of impossibility. - Dorothea Brande

I have made it a rule never to smoke more than one cigar at a time. - Mark Twain

A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel. - Robert Frost

We would all like to vote for the best man but he is never a candidate. - Kin Hubbard

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

A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. - George Bernard Shaw

Everyone wants to eat at the government's table, but nobody wants to do the dishes. - Werner Finck

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

He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career. - George Bernard Shaw

What is the first part of politics? Education. The second? Education. And the third? Education. - Jules Michelet

The difference between death and taxes is death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets. - Will Rogers

In Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination. - Irving Layton

Get thee glass eyes;
And, like a scurvy politician, seem
To see the things thou dost not. - William Shakespeare

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

The man who can make others laugh secures more votes for a measure than the man who forces them to think. - Malcolm de Chazal

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

I won't eat anything that has intelligent life, but I would gladly eat a network executive or a politician. - Marty Feldman

In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate. - Charles de Gaulle

He is one of those wise philanthropists who, in a time of famine, would vote for nothing but a supply of toothpicks. - Douglas Jerrold

The nine most terrifying words in the English language are,
"I'm from the government and I'm here to help." - Ronald Reagan

In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress. - John Adams

Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others. - Ambrose Bierce

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

The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopts them. - Mark Twain

The best way to lose weight is to close your mouth - something very difficult for a politician. Or watch your food - just watch it, don't eat it. - Edward I Kock