Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you, or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country? If you are the first, then you are a parasite; if the second, then you are an oasis in the desert.

Kahlil Gibran

I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.

Charlie Chaplin

If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.

Jay Leno

I get no respect. The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I would be honest.

Rodney Dangerfield

A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.

Henry Louis Mencken

There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.

Will Rogers

Many a politician wishes there was a law to burn old records.

Will Rogers

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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

Larry Hardiman

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