The repository contains 136 quotes in the category “Politics and Government.”
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Accepting a government grant with its accompanying rules is like marrying a girl and finding out her entire family is moving in with you before the honeymoon.
President Ronald Reagan
1911 — 2004
When those who are governed do too little, those who govern can, and will, do too much.
President Ronald Reagan
1911 — 2004
There’s no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.
Will Rogers
1879 — 1935
Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are driving taxi cabs and cutting hair.
George Burns
1896 — 1996
Yesterday upon the stair I met a man who wasn’t there. He wasn’t there again today; I think he’s from the CIA.
A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
P. J. O’Rourke
1947 —
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.
H. L. Mencken
1880 — 1956
A conservative is a liberal who was mugged the night before.
Mayor Frank Rizzo
1920 — 1991
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies.
Groucho Marx
1890 — 1977
A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.
Benjamin Franklin
1706 — 1790
Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors and miss.
Robert Heinlein
1907 — 1988
Love your country, but never trust its government.
Robert Heinlein
1907 — 1988
Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
P. J. O’Rourke
1947 —
The man who says there are no new jokes probably hasn’t read the latest batch of bills before Congress.
The problem with political jokes is that they keep getting elected.
A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.
Government is not the solution to our problems. Government is the problem.
President Ronald Reagan
1911 — 2004
The only way a reporter should look at a politician is down.
H. L. Mencken
1880 — 1956
A lot of folks are flocking to Washington to ask what they can do for their country, and what the salary will be.
When things don’t go well they like to blame Presidents; and that’s something that Presidents are paid for.
President John F. Kennedy
1917 — 1963
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