Quotes About Politics

There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.

I guess truth can hurt you worse in an election than about anything that can happen to you.

Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.

About all I can say for the United States Senate is that it opens with a prayer and closes with an investigation.

The difference between a Republican and a Democrat is the Democrat is a cannibal -- they have to live off each other--while the Republicans, why, they live off the Democrats.

There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.

More men have been elected between sundown and sunup than ever were elected between sunup and sundown.

The United States never lost a war or won a conference.

Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven't had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln.

I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

It's easy being a humorist when you've got the whole government working for you.

Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?

If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics.

There ought to be one day — just one — when there is open season on senators.

Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.

Liberty don't work as good in practice as it does in speeches.

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

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

The best thing about this group of candidates is that only one of them can win.

The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, 'How is the president?'

If I studied all my life, I couldn't think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress.

It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for.

On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.

Communism is like prohibition, it's a good idea but it won't work.