Cheering Up Hillary

All politics is applesauce. - Will Rogers

Politics makes strange postmasters. - Kin Hubbard

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

Man is by nature a political animal. - Aristotle

Politics have no relation to morals. - Niccolo Machiavelli

The gun is not out of Irish politics. - Ian Paisley

Every country has the government it deserves. - Joseph de Maistre

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

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

World War II was the last government program that really worked. - George Will

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

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

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

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business. - Tom Robbins

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

The election is not very far off when a candidate can recognize you across the street. - Kin Hubbard

In America the President reigns for four years and journalism governs forever and ever. - Oscar Wilde

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

Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it. - Tom Robbins

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

Ronald Reagan knew who he was. Barack Obama is still working through that equation politically. - Joe Scarborough

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

I think it's an absolute disaster that Australia, the government, allowed kangaroo culling. - Steve Irwin

In America any boy may become President, and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes. - Adlai Stevenson

Good thing we've still got politics in Texas - finest form of free entertainment ever invented. - Molly Ivins

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

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

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

Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless. - Milton Friedman

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

Being President is a lot like running a cemetery. You've got a lot of people under you and nobody's listening. - Bill Clinton

What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those? - Gilbert Highet

Did you hear about the auto worker who was offered a position as president of a bank but couldn't afford the pay cut? - Unknown

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

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

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

I once said to my father, when I was a boy, 'Dad we need a third political party.' He said to me, 'I'll settle for a second.' - Ralph Nader

In politics, as in womanizing, failure is decisive. It sheds its retrospective gloom on earlier endeavor which at the time seemed full of promise. - Malcolm Muggeridge