Subject: Government » Politics (Page 6)

The worst part about politics is that you're always right and no one ever knows it

How can you govern a country that has 246 varieties of cheese?

(1890 – 1970) French president, general & statesman

I belong to no organized party… I am a Democrat.

(1879 – 1935) humorist & social commentator

Foundation of a party signals the dissolution of the movement.

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.

(1870-1943) German-American politician, socialist & writer

Politics: Where people work hard to get a job and do nothing after they get it.

My grandmother’s brain was dead, but her heart was still beating; it was the first time we ever had a Democrat in the family.

(1956 – ) American comedian

A libertarian is just a Republican who takes drugs.

(1951 – ) American anarchist writer

The greatest thing the Democrats have ever done for me was to defeat me for the governor of Tennessee.

(1903 – 1992) country music singer, fiddler & promoter

Get the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything.

(1902 – 1963) Danish actor

When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.

(1947 – ) author, humorist & satirist

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

(1913 – 1994) 37th U.S. president

I always wanted to get into politics, but I was never light enough to make the team.

(1925 – 2007) humorist & columnist

Never murder a man who is committing suicide.