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James Q. Wilson

There are no more liberals They've all been mugged.

George Will

The unpleasant sound Bush is emitting as he traipses from one conservative gathering to another is a thin, tinny "arf" - the sound of a lap dog.

George Will

Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide issues.

Andy Warhol

I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so American.

George C. Wallace

Why does the Air Force need expensive new bombers? Have the people we've been bombing over the years been complaining?

George C. Wallace

I'm the lamest lame duck there could be.

Bill Vaughan

The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does.

Oliver Stone

I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious.

Gertrude Stein

There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.

William E. Simon

Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote.

Gerhard Schroeder

I can't let important policy decisions hinge on the fact that an election is coming up every 90 days.

Will Rogers

I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!

Will Rogers

Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.

Hyman Rickover

If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't.

Dan Quayle

You have a part-time job and that's better than no job at all.

Dan Quayle

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

Dan Quayle

I just don't believe in the basic concept that someone should make their whole career in public service.

Dan Quayle

Sometimes cameras and television are good to people and sometimes they aren't. I don't know if its the way you say it, or how you look.

Dan Quayle

When I talked to him on the phone yesterday. I called him George rather than Mr. Vice President. But, in public, it's Mr. Vice President, because that is who he is.

Dan Quayle

I spend a great deal of time with the President. We have a very close, personal, loyal relationship. I'm not, as they say, a potted plant in these meetings.

Dan Quayle

The other day the President said, I know you've had some rough times, and I want to do something that will show the nation what faith that I have in you, in your maturity and sense of responsibility. He paused, then said, would you like a puppy?

Dan Quayle

I've never professed to be anything but an average student.

Dan Quayle

When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it's always a possibility to get a few words tangled here and there.

Dan Quayle

I'm going to be a vice president very much like George Bush was. He proved to be a very effective vice president, perhaps the most effective we've had in a couple of hundred years.

Dan Quayle

I have a very good family. I'm very fortunate to have a very good family. I believe very strongly in the family. It's one of the things we have in our platform, is to talk about it.

Dan Quayle

This election is about who's going to be the next President of the United States!

Dan Quayle

Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in 1988 the question is whether we're going forward to tomorrow or whether we're going to go past to the - to the back!

Dan Quayle

Lookit, I've done it their way this far and now it's my turn. I'm my own handler. Any questions? Ask me... There's not going to be any more handler stories because I'm the handler... I'm Doctor Spin.

Dan Quayle

It's rural America. It's where I came from. We always refer to ourselves as real America. Rural America, real America, real, real, America.

Dan Quayle

El Salvador is a democracy so it's not surprising that there are many voices to be heard here. Yet in my conversations with Salvadorans... I have heard a single voice.

Dan Quayle

I want to be Robin to Bush's Batman.

Dan Quayle

What you guys want, I'm for.

Thomas Paine

'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.

P. J. O'Rourke

The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it.

Thomas P. O'Neill

You better take advantage of the good cigars. You don't get much else in that job.

Kirk O'Donnell

Political theory provides a common language with which people in this town communicate with each other.

Sandra Day O'Connor

We hold that the reckless disregard for human life implicit in knowingly engaging in criminal activity known to carry a grave risk of death represents a highly culpable mental state that may be taken into account in making a capital sentencing judgment not inevitable, lethal result.

Sandra Day O'Connor

It is a measure of the framers' fear that a passing majority might find it expedient to compromise 4th Amendment values that these values were embodied in the Constitution itself.

Sandra Day O'Connor

It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren.

Sandra Day O'Connor

My hope is that 10 years from now, after I've been across the street at work for a while, they'll all be glad they gave me that wonderful vote.

Dennis Miller

A recent conversation: Dubya: Look at the clock, time is racing! Cheney: That's the second hand, George.

Thurgood Marshall

Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.

Nelson Mandela

If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers.

Harold MacMillan

You can hardly say boo to a goose in the House of Commons now without cries of "Ungentlemanly," "Not fair" and all the rest.

Thomas B. Macaulay

Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.

Neal Barnard, M.D.

The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined.

Charles Krauthammer

Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country - and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians.

Jeane J. Kirkpatrick

I was a woman in a man's world. I was a Democrat in a Republican administration. I was an intellectual in a world of bureaucrats. I talked differently. This may have made me a bit like an ink blot.

Edward Kennedy

Frankly, I don't mind not being President. I just mind that someone else is.

John F. Kennedy

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

Theodore Roosevelt

I wish that all Americans would realize that American politics is world politics.

French Proverb

Those who do not do politics will be done in by politics.

Ralph Nader

Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you.

David Botter

Not everyone is attracted to politics???. [S]cholars found that more than half the adults in Wayne County (Detroit) Michigan thought that politics was dirty and dishonest. Nearly half the political volunteers and political workers in the county thought so,

Mao Tse-Tung

Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed.

Margaret Thatcher

In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man; if you want anything done, ask a woman.

J Danforth Quayle

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

Lyndon B. Johnson

I seldom think of politics more than 18 hours a day.

Edward De Bono

Politics when I am in it, makes me sick.

Roy Hattersley

In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme.

Anon.

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

Richard Buckminster Fuller

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

William Penn

To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as morals.

Groucho Marx

Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows - marriage does.

Vera Brittaiin

Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

Will Rogers

Politics has got so expensive that it takes lots of money to even get beat with.

George MacDonald

It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.

Martin L. Gross

We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy.

Richard Lamm

Politics, like theater, is one of those things where you've got to be wise enough to know when to leave.

Richard Armour

Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.

Ambrose Bierce

Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.

Larry Hardiman

Politics, n: Poly "many" + tics "blood-sucking parasites"

Joseph Sobran

Politics is the conspiracy of the unproductive but organized against the productive but unorganized.

Henry Adams

Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Will Rogers

The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.

Marcel Archard

The bedfellows politics made are never strange. It only seems that way to those who have not watched the courtship.

Jacob Chanowski

No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.

William Safire

Decide on some imperfect Somebody and you will win, because the truest truism in politics is You can't beat Somebody with Nobody.

James Barrett Scotty Reston

All politics are based on the indifference of the majority.

John le Carre

If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing.

Theodore White

The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy.

Francois Arouet

In politics I am growing indifferent -- I would like it, if I could now return to my planting and books at home.

Gilbert Highet

What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those

Fawn M. Brodie

A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.

Eugene McCarthy

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

Mark Twain

In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination.

Julius Henry Marx

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.

Oscar Ameringer

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.

Randolph Silliman Bourne

About the rhinoceros Here is an animal with a hide two feet think and no apparent interest in politics. What a waste.

John George Diefenbaker

The Liberals are the flying saucers of politics. No one can make head nor tail of them and they never are seen twice in the same place.

Matthew Green

Or to some coffee-house I stray, For news, the manna of the day, And from the hipp???d discourses gather That politics go by the weather.

Ambrose Bierce

Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.

H.L. Mencken

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace in a continual state of alarm (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing them with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

Henry Louis Mencken

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed -- and hence clamorous to be led to safety -- by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

Isaac Asimov

Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.

Lyndon B. Johnson

What we won when all of our people united ... must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. ... Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president.

Peggy Noonan

Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen.

Paul Valery

La politique est l'art d'empcher les gens de se mler de ce qui les regarde. (Politics is the art of preventing people from sticking their noses in things that are properly their business.

John Adams

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.

Lester R Bittel

Sometimes in politics one must duel with skunks, but no one should be fool enough to allow the skunks to choose the weapons.

Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.

"Those who do not do politics will be done in by politics." -- French Proverb

Politics is the art of the possible.

Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.

Crime does not pay ... as well as politics.

Crime does not pay...as well as politics.

Politics is applesauce.

To err is human. To blame someone else is politics.

War is a continuation of politics by other means.

Politics has less to do with where you live than where your heart is.

Politics is no exact science.

War is the continuation of politics by other means.

In politics stupidity is not a handicap.

In politics, absurdity is not a handicap.

Emotion is a rotten base for politics.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Politics... have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

Politics is largely a matter of heart.

Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

A week is a long time in politics.

Politics is the science of getting more power than anyone deserves to have.

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

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

Politics is the art of the possible. (originally, Die Politik ist die Lehre von M?glichen.)

University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.

Politics doesn???t make strange bedfellows--marriage does.

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

I have never found in a long experience of politics that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.

I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.

Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.

Politics is the art of preventing people from sticking their noses in things that are properly their business.

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

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.

Objective journalism is one of the main reasons American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long.

Politics [is] the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order.

In politics you must always keep running with the pack. The moment that you falter and they sense that you are injured, the rest will turn on you like wolves.

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

The teaching of politics is that the Government, which was set for protection and comfort of all good citizens, becomes the principal obstruction and nuisance with which we have to contend?The cheat and bully and malefactor we meet everywhere is the Gover

There are seven sins in the world: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice and politics without principle.

There is a schizophrenic nature in modern politics. A leader is expected to have a religious faith but he is not supposed to let it influence him in his duties. Somehow, the truths that determine everything else about his existence are not allowed to infl

You begin saving the world by saving one person at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.

"everything politicians touch, turns to crap" - Ringo Starr's first and only law of politics

"Politics": from poli = many, tics = blood-sucking parasites

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