Nuggets of wisdom from politicians, comedians and other influential people.
Take it from me–elections matter.
— Al Gore
An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
— George Eliot
I’m older than dirt, I’ve got more scars than Frankenstein, but I’ve learned a few things along the way.
— John McCain
Washington, D.C., is to lying what Wisconsin is to cheese.
— Dennis Miller
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies.
— Groucho Marx
Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad name.
— Henry Kissinger
Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have elections is to find out if the polls were right?
— Robert Orben, humorist
Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you’re a thousand miles from the cornfield.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism.
— Bill Moyers
Everybody knows politics is a contact sport.
— Barack Obama
To lodge all power in one party and keep it there is to insure bad government.
— Mark Twain
The politician is trained in the art of inexactitude. His words tend to be blunt or rounded because if they have a cutting edge they may later return to wound him.
— Edward R. Murrow
