Political one-liners

He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.- George Bernard Shaw

Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel. - John Quinton

Never vote for the best candidate, vote for the one who will do the least harm. - Frank Dane

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

Politics makes estranged bedfellows. - Goodman Acey

Politicians are interested in people. Not that this is a good thing. Fleas are interested in dogs.- P.J. O'Rourke

Politicians who complain about the media are like sailors who complain about the sea. - Enoch Powell

Crime does not pay - as well as politics.- Alfred E. Newman

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.- Lester B. Pearson

If Presidents don't do it to their wives, they do it to the country. - Mel Brooks

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

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.- Otto von Bismarck

Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the National Debt.- Herbert Hoover

Don't get excited about a tax cut. It's like a mugger giving you back fare for a taxi.- Arnold Glasow

The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government, and I'm here to help. - Ronald Reagan

We'd all like to vote for the best man but he's never a candidate. - Kin Hubbard

Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least. - Robert Byrne

He appears to have no clear political view except that the world should be a nicer place and that he should be loved and trusted by everyone and questioned by no-one.- Norman Tebbit, on Tony Blair

Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.- George Orwell

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

Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned. - Milton Friedman

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad name. - Henry Kissinger