Obama Announcement

Good government is good politics. - Richard J. Daley

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

Vice-President: A cow's fifth teat. - Harry S Truman

The presidency is temporary, but the family is permanent. - Yvonne de Gaulle

I don't go around signin' no political documentaries. - Archie Bunker

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

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

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

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

University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. - Henry Kissinger

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

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

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

Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated. - Will Rogers

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

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

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

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

I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university. - Albert Einstein

Animals are like little children a bit. They're simple. They don't have politics driving them. - Annabelle Sabloff

Obama and his attack dogs have nothing but hate and anger in their hearts and spew it whenever possible. - Donald Trump

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

Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism. - Claude McKay

The only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in keeping their money in their own pockets. - Lysander Spooner

Harold MacMillan is a very intelligent man, who, as so often happens in politics, achieved supreme power too late. - Malcolm Muggeridge

Frankly, I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry. - Joseph Heller

One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are. - Cal Thomas

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

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

I like thieves. Some of my best friends are thieves. Why, just last week we had the president of the bank over for dinner. - WC Fields

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

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

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

Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the Government take care of him, better take a closer look at the American Indian. - Henry Ford

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

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

Being in politics is like being a football coach; you have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important. - Eugene McCarthy

Our ancestors believed in magic, prayers, trickery, browbeating and bullying. I think it would be fair to sum that up as 'Irish politics'. - Flann O'Brien

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