Same People

Politics is war by other measures. - Steve Bannon

Politics makes strange red-fellows. - Will Rogers

Oh, that lovely title, ex-president. - Dwight D Eisenhower

I would rather be right than be President. - Henry Clay

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

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

Obama does not like the issue of where he was born. - Donald Trump

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

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory. - John Kenneth Galbraith

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under. - H L Mencken

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

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

It's a terrible shame that politics has become show business. - Sydney Pollack

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

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

Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed. - Mao Zedong

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

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

I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. - Will Rogers

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

To lodge all power in one party and keep it there is to insure bad government. - Mark Twain

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

Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it. - Laurence J Peter

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

Politics, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong. - Richard Armour

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

Democracy means that anyone can grow up to be president, and anyone who doesn't grow up can be vice president. - Johnny Carson

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

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

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

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

It would be nice to spend billions on schools and roads, but right now that money is desperately needed for political ads. - Andy Borowitz

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

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book. - Ronald Reagan

Every country must be absolutely free to adopt the type of economic, political and social system that it considers convenient. - Fidel Castro

The nine most terrifying words in the English language are,
"I'm from the government and I'm here to help." - Ronald Reagan

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

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