Obama Announcement

Politics is an inexact science. - Otto von Bismarck

There is no gambling like politics. - Benjamin Disraeli

Man is by nature a political animal. - Aristotle

Politics is the art of the possible. - Otto von Bismarck

Politics is just show business for ugly people. - Jay Leno

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

The Golden Rule has no place in a political campaign. - John J Ingalls

Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets. - Ronald Reagan

Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party. - Herbert Hoover

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

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

The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government. - Edward Abbey

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

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

I wouldn't run for President. I wouldn't want to move to a smaller house. - Bono

The fastest way for a politician to become an elder statesman is to lose an election. - Earl Wilson

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

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

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

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

Folks who don't know why America is the Land of Promise should be here during an election campaign. - Milton Berle

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

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

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

Taxpayer - someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination. - Ronald Reagan

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

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

Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so. - Gore Vidal

Very few of these panic-mongers have any personal knowledge of the countries that are already under blackshirt government. - Lord Rothermere

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

An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry. - George Eliot

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

Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other. - Oscar Ameringer

If Obama resigns from office NOW, thereby doing a great service to the country, I will give him free lifetime golf at any one of my courses. - 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

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

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: "President Can't Swim." - Lyndon B. Johnson

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