Subject: Government » Politics (Page 3)

There is no Democratic or Republican way of cleaning the streets.

(1882 – 1947) American mayor of New York City

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

(1890 – 1970) French president, general & statesman

What does an actor know about politics?

(1911 – 2004) 40th U.S. president & actor

An independent is a guy who wants to take the politics out of politics.

(1900 – 1965) diplomat & Democratic politician

No one party can fool all of the people all of the time; that’s why we have two parties.

(1903 – 2003) English-born American comedian & actor

I Like My Tea With Civilized Discourse

Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession… and I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

(1911 – 2004) 40th U.S. president & actor

I think it will be a clash between the political will and the administrative won’t.

(1943 – ) English film director, comedy writer & actor

Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.

A bunch of money-grubbin', greenhouse-gassing, seal-clubbing, oil-drilling, Bible-thumping, missile-firing, right-to-life-ing, lethal-injecting hypocrites, whose idea of a good time is strapping a dead panda to a Lincoln Navigator and running over everybody in the gay parade.

(1957 – 2007) American stand-up comedian & actor

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

(1916 – 2005) American politician & poet

You win some, you lose some, and then there's that little known third category.

(1948 – ) U.S. vice president & politician, author & environmentalist

You do the policy, I'll do the politics.

(1947 – ) U.S. vice president & politician

It’s a sad day when our politicians are comical and I have to take our comedians seriously!

You can't get rich in politics unless you are a crook.


To succeed in politics, it is often necessary to rise above your principles.

Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver; finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.

(1913 – 1994) 37th U.S. president

Bill Clinton's foreign policy experience is pretty much confined to having had breakfast once at the International House of Pancakes.

(1938 – ) political commentator, author, columnist, politician & broadcaster

We all know this administration loves deleting history faster than Anthony Weiner when he hears footsteps.

(1985 – ) American comedian & actor

Men enter politics solely as a result of being unhappily married.

(1909 – 1993) British naval historian & author

It's not that I disagree with Bush's economic policy or his foreign policy, it's that I believe he was a child of Satan sent here to destroy the planet Earth.

(1961 – 1994) comedian