The repository contains 136 quotes in the category “Politics and Government.”
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Distracting a politician from governing is like distracting a bear from eating your baby.
P. J. O’Rourke
1947 —
I’m asking for your vote. For those of you for me, thanks for your help. For those of you for my opponent, please only vote once.
President George W. Bush
1946 —
Presidential Debate
October 17, 2000
Being President is like running a cemetery: you’ve got a lot of people under you and nobody’s listening.
President Bill Clinton
1946 —
Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
Gore Vidal
1925 —
If you think too much about being reelected, it is very difficult to be worth reelecting.
President Woodrow Wilson
1856 — 1924
Politics is either passing the buck or passing the dough.
Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards; if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.
President Ronald Reagan
1911 — 2004
Necessity overrides every law.
Pope Innocent IV
1180? — 1254
Today’s public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can’t read them either.
Gore Vidal
1925 —
A law is what results when the government writes a wrong.
Jim Poserina
1977 —
They’re lawyers. That’s Latin for liars!
The smarter a politician is, the more things he believes and the less he believes any of them.
H. L. Mencken
1880 — 1956
In capitalism man takes advantage of man. In communism, the opposite happens.
John Kenneth Galbraith
1908 — 2006
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
President George Washington
1732 — 1799
A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen
Prime Minister Winston Churchill
1874 — 1965
Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.
C. S. Lewis
1898 — 1963
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