Subject: Government (Page 2)

The Cavalry doesn’t always come to the rescue.

The wind doesn't bother me… I'm in the U.S. Senate.

(1923 – ) U.S. senator (Kansas) & presidential candidate

No one ever carries too much ammo.

The less a statesman amounts to, the more he loves the flag.

(1868 – 1930) cartoonist, humorist & journalist

The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time.

(1881 – 1960) American columnist

If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free.

(1947 – ) author, humorist & satirist

I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.

(1894 – 1986) British prime minister

[Charles Dickens] was the bravest man who ever lived; he fathered ten children before they became tax deductions.

(1880 – 1946) comedian, actor, juggler & writer

There is a statue of limitation.

(1879 – 1974) film producer

He rules the country with an iron fist – the same way he plays the piano.

(1903 – 2003) English-born American comedian & actor

If we had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.

(1879 – 1940) Russian Marxist revolutionary, theorist & Soviet politician

With a black president, I can relax…I can dance in public… I can buy a whole watermelon now.

(1964 – ) American writer, stand-up comedian, actress, television host

It ain’t no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don’t break any.

(1893 – 1980) actress, playwright, screenwriter & sex symbol

I called the Census Bureau to see why they hadn't sent me a form, and they said that I was too nondescript to influence the demographics one way or another.

comedian

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become president… now I'm beginning to believe it.

(1857 – 1938) American lawyer

Next to being shot at and missed, nothing is really quite as satisfying as an income tax refund.

The worst part about politics is that you're always right and no one ever knows it

There's no special reason; it's just government policy.

When a politician gets an idea, he usually gets it wrong.

If I had my way, any man guilty of golf would be ineligible for any office of trust in the United States.

(1880 – 1956) journalist, essayist, editor & satirist

He may be a son of a bitch, but he’s our son of a bitch.

(1882 – 1945) 32nd U.S. president