Conservative Plant

All politics is applesauce. - Will Rogers

Politics is an inexact science. - Otto von Bismarck

Politics have no relation to morals. - Niccolo Machiavelli

Voters want a fraud they can believe in. - Will Durst

Smoking cures weight problems... eventually. - Steven Wright

Intelligence has nothing to do with politics. - Londo Molari

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

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts. - Henry Brooks Adams

I never vote for anyone; I always vote against. - WC Fields

Politics is just show business for ugly people. - Jay Leno

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

Smoking means always having to say you're sorry. - Tom Ferguson

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

I'm not a politician. I've only got one face. - Brendan Behan

Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets. - Ronald Reagan

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

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

The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world. - Reinhold Niebuhr

The most important political office is that of the private citizen. - Louis D. Brandeis

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

Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. - John Kenneth Galbraith

The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop. - P.J. O'Rourke

I love Canada. I am from Canada. I will bash the Canadian government but never Canada. - Jason Priestley

Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism. - Bill Moyers

I don't smoke dope, I don't drink bourbon. All I want to do is shake my turban. - Peter Singh

Of all the tasks of government, the most basic is to protect its citizens from violence. - John Foster Dulles

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

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

I must study politics and war that my sons may have the liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. - John Adams

Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times. - Mark Twain

Democracy is very different in U.S. and A. from Kazakhstan. In America, woman can vote, but horse cannot! - Borat Sagdiyev

One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government. - Donald Trump

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. - Plato

If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking and loving, you don't actually live longer; it just seems longer. - Clement Freud

Canada's political parties spend a few years in opposition and then govern as if it's permanent payback time. - Bob Rae

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

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

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

A politician should have three hats. One for throwing into the ring, one for talking through, and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected. - Carl Sandburg