Quotes About Government

Mixing humor and politics is something that works.

Tikka Khan won't try to stick his nose in politics.

I think the presidency is much too serious a thing to just play politics with.

Will Rogers once said it is not the original investment in a Congressman that counts; it is the upkeep.

Nobody told me when I became a Democrat that that involved opposition to lower taxes.

Politics has rough manners, but it is a very useful thing.

The reason so many problems do not get solved in Washington is that solving those problems is not the No. 1 priority: Re-election is.

Government has come to be a trade, and is managed solely on commercial principles. A man plunges into politics to make his fortune, and only cares that the world shall last his days.

REPRESENTATIVE, n. In national politics, a member of the Lower House in this world, and without discernible hope of promotion in the next.

It is, of course, the merest truism to say a party is of use only so far as it serves the nation.

Politics is about ethics and morality, openly or not openly.

Only two things ever stop the government from doing anything: money and politics

It's a national failing to think of politics as something that goes on in Parliament. It isn't; it's something that goes on inside us.

I don't think Bush was legitimately elected President.

Morality has nothing in common with politics.

All I wanted was to be involved in politics and government.

Politics doesn't matter, policy does.

Well, the role of money in politics is pretty corrupting right now.

Politicians are dumb, but they can count to 50% plus one.

The most valuable function performed by the federal government is entertainment.

Someone told me it was a round thing that gobbles up money. I thought that was Tip O'Neill.

It is hostile to a democratic system to involve the judiciary in the politics of the people.

The news of any politician's death should be listed under Public Improvements.

We must save the Constitution from the [Supreme] Court and the Court from itself.