Cheering Up Hillary

Good government is good politics. - Richard J. Daley

Politics have no relation to morals. - Niccolo Machiavelli

In politics nothing is contemptible. - Benjamin Disraeli

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

I love a dog. He does nothing for political reasons. - Will Rogers

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

I will be the greatest jobs president that God ever created. - Donald Trump

Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity. - Albert Einstein

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

We need a president who's fluent in at least one language. - Buck Henry

An honest man in politics shines more than he would elsewhere. - Mark Twain

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

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

For every action, there is an equal and opposite government program. - Bob Wells

The President is going to lead us out of this recovery. It will happen. - Dan Quayle

Every woman dreams of her own political career and her own place in life. - Raisa M. Gorbachev

Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for. - Will Rogers

Government can't give us anything without depriving us of something else. - Henry Hazlitt

Frankly, I don't mind not being President. I just mind that someone else is. - Edward Kennedy

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

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

I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government. - Woody Allen

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

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

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

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

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

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. - Frederic Bastiat

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

Politics is the only business where doing nothing other than making the other guy look bad is an acceptable outcome. - Mark Warner

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

There are advantages to being President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret. - Ronald Reagan

Everyone has a skeleton in their closet. The difference between Bill Clinton and myself is that he has a walk-in closet. - Pat Buchanan

If the government was as afraid of disturbing the consumer as it is of disturbing business, this would be some democracy. - Kin Hubbard

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

The workers' and peasants' government proposes to all warring peoples... negotiations leading to a just, democratic peace. - Lenin

Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. - Ronald Reagan

If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep. - Will Rogers

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

Regarded simply as a politician, and compared with the other leading political figures of our time, how clean a smell he has managed to leave behind. - Mahatma Gandhi