Cheering Up Hillary

How can a President not be an actor? - Ronald Reagan

In politics an absurdity is not a handicap. - Napoleon Bonaparte

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts. - Henry Brooks Adams

A government of law is a government of lawyers. - Saying

Mr. President, I love you, but you're wrong. - Paul Harvey

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

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

Every man who wants to be President is either an egomaniac or crazy. - Dwight D Eisenhower

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

In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take. - Adlai Stevenson

Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure. - Bertrand Russell

A filmmaker we almost lost to politics... my friend and colleague, Warren Beatty. - Jack Nicholson

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

Either the government will be given to us or we shall seize it by marching on Rome. - Benito Mussolini

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

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. - P.J. O'Rourke

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it. - Mark Twain

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

If Hillary Clinton can't satisfy her husband what makes her think she can satisfy America. - Donald Trump

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

President Ford tells us all to bite the bullet and Betsy Ford goes on TV and shoots off her mouth. - Archie Bunker

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

It's triple the Trump this season... I invited my children, Don Jr. and Ivanka into the boardroom. - Donald Trump

Why pay money to have your family tree traced; go into politics and your opponents will do it for you. - Unknown

Politics, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong. - Richard Armour

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

To be President of the United States, sir, is to act as advocate for a blind, venomous, and ungrateful client. - John Updike

I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power. - Arthur C. Clarke

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

The business of government is to keep the government out of business - that is, unless business needs government aid. - Will Rogers

Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half. - Gore Vidal

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

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

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

When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale. - John W. Gardner

These are stupid people that say, "Oh didn't Trump declare bankruptcy? Didn't he go bankrupt?" I didn't go bankrupt. - Donald Trump

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my country. I make up for lost time when I am at home. - Winston Churchill