Obama Announcement

Politics is an inexact science. - Otto von Bismarck

Good government is good politics. - Richard J. Daley

Man is by nature a political animal. - Aristotle

A government of law is a government of lawyers. - Saying

Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you. - Ralph Nader

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

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

When the President does it, that means that it's not illegal. - Richard M Nixon

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

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

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

In politics, madame, you need two things: friends, but above all an enemy. - Brian Mulroney

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It's our experience that political leaders don't always mean the opposite of what they say. - Abba Eban

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

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

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

Politics: Poli, a Latin word meaning "many"; and tics, meaning "bloodsucking creatures." - Robin Williams

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

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

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

I have certain rules I live by. My first rule: I don't believe anything the government tells me. Nothing. Zero. - George Carlin

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

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

I'm not interested in cutting the feet off my characters or stretching them to make them fit my certain political view. - Margaret Atwood

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

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

The Obama representatives like Robert Gibbs attack people viciously, but people like me will not be silent and will answer them back. - Donald Trump

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

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