Politics Wishes and Status Messages - Page 3

Honesty in politics is much like oxygen. The higher up you go, the scarcer it becomes.

I don''t make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where they is no river.

A politician will do anything to keep his job even become a patriot.

Mankind will never see an end of trouble until... lovers of wisdom come to hold political power, or the holders of power... become lovers of wisdom.

Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.

Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It''s the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

The word ''politics'' is derived from the word ''poly'', meaning ''many'', and the word ''ticks'', meaning ''blood sucking parasites''.

It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.

Politics - I don''t know why, but they seem to have a tendency to separate us, to keep us from one another, while nature is always and ever making efforts to bring us together.

Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other.

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.

Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.

Politics gives guys so much power that they tend to behave badly around women. And I hope I never get into that. -William J. Clinton

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country.

Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.

In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.

Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.

A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life.

In politics, your enemies can''t hurt you, but your friends will kill you.

Vote for the man who promises least; he''ll be the least disappointing.

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man''s character, give him power.

Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable; the principles of it are troublesome.