Obama Announcement

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

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

When I'm president, everyone gets a free pony. - Vermin Supreme

If men were angels, no government would be necessary. - James Madison

The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia. - Otto von Bismarck

Self-government won't work without self-discipline. - Paul Harvey

Government cannot and must not replace private initiative. - Kim Campbell

You can't get rich in politics unless you're a crook. - Harry S Truman

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

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

We have the best government in the world... that money can buy. - Mark Twain

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

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

I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent. - Edith Sitwell

Politics is the chloroform of the Irish people, or, rather the hashish. - Oliver St. John Gogarty

I do have a political agenda. It's to have as few regulations as possible. - Dan Quayle

The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy. - Theodore White

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power. - Aldous Huxley

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

The secret of political bargaining is to look more strong than what you really are. - Subhash Bose

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

No president who performs his duties faithfully and conscientiously can have any leisure. - James K Polk

My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight. - John F Kennedy

Officialese: A government language where you can understand the words, but not the sentences - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare. - Daniel P Moynihan

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

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

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

The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning. - Theodor Adorno

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

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

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy. - Groucho Marx

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

The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does. - Bill Vaughan

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

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

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