150 Politics Funny Quotes

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Famous Politics Funny Quotes

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. — Frank Zappa

I'm offended by political jokes. Too often they get elected. — Henny Youngman

Politics is show business for ugly people. — Paul Begala

I'm a politician, and as you know, politicians are rarely very funny. — Nicola Sturgeon

I don't do a lot of political jokes. Too many are getting elected. — Bob Hope

Politics would be a helluva good business if it weren't for the goddamned people. — Richard M. Nixon

It's now our responsibility to prove to ourselves, to other nations, and especially to our children and our grandchildren, that politics is full of fun; politics has some wisdom. Politics is freedom. — Joko Widodo

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first. — Ronald Reagan

Politics is not bean bags. It's serious, tough stuff. - Colin Powell

Politics is not bean bags. It's serious, tough stuff. — Colin Powell

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

Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason. — Mark Twain

Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity. — Vera Brittain

Politics: Poli a Latin word meaning many and tics meaning bloodsucking creatures. — Robin Williams

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. — Charles De Gaulle

The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected. - Will Rogers

The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected. — Will Rogers

Short Politics Funny Quotes

  • Politics is the exercise of power without merit. — Naval Ravikant
  • Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers. — Nikita Khrushchev
  • With Congress, every time they make a joke it's a law, and every time they make a law it's a joke. — Will Rogers
  • To err is human. To blame someone else is politics. — Hubert H. Humphrey
  • Politics is a jungle-torn between doing the right thing and staying in office. — John F. Kennedy
  • Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity. — Albert Einstein
  • Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils. — George Orwell
  • It's a great time to be doing political satire when the world is on a knife edge. — John Oliver
  • Politics with me isn't theater. It's performance art. Sometimes, for its own sake. — Roger Stone
  • Politics and hypocrites is turning us all into lunatics. — Marvin Gaye

Politics Funny Image Quotes

The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government. - Edward Abbey quote

The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government. — Edward Abbey

I always like to go to Washington D.C. It gives me a chance to visit my money. - Bob Hope quote

I always like to go to Washington D.C. It gives me a chance to visit my money. — Bob Hope

You can build a throne with bayonets, but it's difficult to sit on it. - Boris Yeltsin quote

You can build a throne with bayonets, but it's difficult to sit on it. — Boris Yeltsin

Politics funny quote To thrive in life you need three bones. A wishbone. A backbone. And a funny bone.
To thrive in life you need three bones. A wishbone. A backbone. And a funny bone.

Political Humor Quotes

It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong. - Voltaire

It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong. — Voltaire

You can change your wife, your politics, your religion, but never, never can you change your favourite football team. — Eric Cantona

In America, anyone can become president. That's the problem. - George Carlin

In America, anyone can become president. That's the problem. — George Carlin

Politics funny quote Isn't it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back everything is different.
Isn't it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back everything is different.

I prefer someone who burns the flag and then wraps themselves up in the Constitution over someone who burns the Constitution and then wraps themselves up in the flag. — Molly Ivins

No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session. — Mark Twain

Subversive, ethical, ecological, political, humorous ... this is how I see my duty as a designer. — Philippe Starck

Politics funny quote I tried to be normal once. Worst to minutes of my life.
I tried to be normal once. Worst to minutes of my life.

Political correctness is tyranny with manners. — Charlton Heston

Few things are more irritating than when someone who is wrong is also very effective in making his point. — Mark Twain

I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God. — Abraham Lincoln

I mean, there needs to be a wholesale effort against racial profiling, which is illiterate children. — George W. Bush

Political Jokes Quotes

There are three things I have learned never to discuss with people...religion, politics and the Great Pumpkin! — Charles M. Schulz

If your regime is not strong enough to handle a joke, then you don't have a regime. — Jon Stewart

I like a President who tells jokes instead of appointing them. — Bob Hope

Politics funny quote When words are both true and kind they can change the world.
When words are both true and kind they can change the world.

If you can't convince them, confuse them. — Harry S. Truman

New opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then as questions open to discussion, and finally as established truths. — George Bernard Shaw

To me, racist jokes are not funny. I am politically correct, in a weird way. I like to push the boundaries that are politically correct. — John Waters

Politics funny quote Be gentle with yourself, you're doing the best you can.
Be gentle with yourself, you're doing the best you can.

I understand what a normal political speech is. You get up there, tell a few jokes, you have the flags behind you, and you speak for 10 or 15 minutes in broad generalities. — Bernie Sanders

Reagan was an exceedingly likeable guy, just a heck of a nice fellow, despite his politics. He was funny and loved a good joke, the dirtier, I'm afraid the more ethnic, the better. I don't think he brought very much to the presidency, except charisma and success. — Walter Cronkite

To joke in the face of danger is the supreme politeness, a delicate refusal to cast oneself as a tragic hero. — Edmond Rostand

It's important to remember that life is a joke, and that outlook grants a lot of perspective, but I don't think comedy should change and become political due to other things. It should just laugh at that cosmic joke that life is all the time. — John Mulaney

Good Funny Quotes

Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian. — Dennis Wholey

Having sex is like playing bridge. If you don't have a good partner, you'd better have a good hand. — Woody Allen

I've lost a million and a half on the horses and dice in the last two years. And the funny part is, I still like 'em, and if someone handed me another million I'd put it right in the nose of some horse that looked good to me. — Al Capone

Politics funny quote Never miss a good chance to shut up.
Never miss a good chance to shut up.

A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world. — Lois Wyse

A good speech should be like a woman's skirt: long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest — Winston Churchill

A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words. — Donna Roberts

Women need a reason to have sex, men just need a place. - Billy Crystal

Women need a reason to have sex, men just need a place. — Billy Crystal

love the life you live. live the life you love. - Bob Marley

love the life you live. live the life you love. — Bob Marley

In God we trust; all others bring data. - W. Edwards Deming

In God we trust; all others bring data. — W. Edwards Deming

There is a planet named Pluto, but we don't have one named Goofy. Goofy would be a good name for this planet. It certainly qualifies. — Sayings

Canada Funny Quotes

Our hopes are high. Our faith in the people is great. Our courage is strong. And our dreams for this beautiful country will never die. — Pierre Trudeau

Under this flag may our youth find new inspiration for loyalty to Canada; for a patriotism based not on any mean or narrow nationalism, but on the deep and equal pride that all Canadians will feel for every part of this good land. — Lester B. Pearson

There are no limits to the majestic future which lies before the mighty expanse of Canada with its virile, aspiring, cultured, and generous-hearted people. — Winston Churchill

Politics funny quote There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.
There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.

I just think you Westerners should take over this country if you are so smart. — Pierre Trudeau

I am so excited about Canadians ruling the world. — John Diefenbaker

When I'm in Canada, I feel this is what the world should be like. — Jane Fonda

Politics funny quote Treat everyone with politeness and kindness, not because they are nice, but because you are.
Treat everyone with politeness and kindness, not because they are nice, but because you are.

After all, we fought the Yanks in 1812 and kicked them the hell out of our country - but not with blanks. — Farley Mowat

A Canadian is somebody who knows how to make love in a canoe. — Pierre Berton

If you don't think that your country should come before yourself, you can better serve your country by livin' someplace else. — Stompin' Tom Connors

I saw a notice that said "Drink Canada Dry" and I've just started. — Brendan Behan

Good Political Quotes

The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia. — Otto von Bismarck

I love peace and quiet, I hate politics and turmoil. We women are not made for governing, and if we are good women, we must dislike these masculine occupations. — Queen Victoria

I ran for the presidency, despite hopeless odds, to demonstrate the sheer will and refusal to accept the status quo. — Shirley Chisholm

Politics funny quote Be the person your dog thinks you are.
Be the person your dog thinks you are.

If man is not made in the image of God, nothing then stands in the way of inhumanity. There is no good reason why mankind should be perceived as special. Human life is cheapened. We can see this in many of the major issues being debated in our society today. — Francis Schaeffer

Gold will not always get you good soldiers, but good soldiers can get you gold. - Niccolo Machiavelli

Gold will not always get you good soldiers, but good soldiers can get you gold. — Niccolo Machiavelli

We live in a world where our social system is old, our language is old, the way we acquire goods and services is outdated, our cities are detrimental to our health, chaotic and a tremendous waste of resource, and most of all our politics and values no longer serve us. — Jacque Fresco

Politics funny quote Trust me, You can dance.
Trust me, You can dance.

There are three critical ingredients to democratic renewal and progressive change in America: good public policy, grassroots organizing and electoral politics. — Paul Wellstone

Independence, the freedom of a self-governing nation, is in my estimation the highest political good, for which any disadvantage, if need be, and any sacrifice are a cheap price. — Enoch Powell

We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. — Edward R. Murrow

All that a good government aims at... is to add no unnecessary and artificial aid to the force of its own unavoidable consequences, and to abstain from fortifying and accumulating social inequality as a means of increasing political inequalities. — James F. Cooper

Taxes Funny Quotes

I like to pay taxes. With them, I buy civilization. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Worried about an IRS audit? Avoid what's called a red flag. That's something the IRS always looks for. For example, say you have some money left in your bank account after paying taxes. That's a red flag — Jay Leno

Our party has been accused of fooling the public by calling tax increases 'revenue enhancement'. Not so. No one was fooled — Dan Quayle

Politics funny quote The stronger you become, the gentler you will be.
The stronger you become, the gentler you will be.

The way taxes are, you might as well marry for love — Joe Louis

Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math. — Ambrose Bierce

The politicians say 'we' can't afford a tax cut. Maybe we can't afford the politicians. — Steve Forbes

Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep. — Neil Peart

A fool and his money are soon invited everywhere. — Warren Buffett

It's income tax time again, Americans: time to gather up those receipts, get out those tax forms, sharpen up that pencil, and stab yourself in the aorta — Dave Barry

A tax is a fine for doing well, a fine is a tax for doing wrong. — Mark Twain

Political Cartoons Quotes

That's the conundrum of cartoon stripping, as opposed to political cartoons. When your anger is the driving force of your drawing hand, failure follows. The anger is OK, but it has to serve the interests of the heart, frankly. — Berkeley Breathed

I was doing political cartoons and getting angry to the point where I felt I was going to have to start making and throwing bombs. I thought I was probably a better cartoonist than a bomb maker. — Terry Gilliam

I've been interested in cartooning all my life. I read the comics as a kid, and I did cartoons for high school publications - the newspaper and yearbook and soon. In college, I got interested in political cartooning and did political cartoons. — Bill Watterson

Freedom of speech trumps political correctness. I would say our magazine would publish an anti-Semitic or Holocaust denying cartoon if it meant Jews around the world were rioting because of it and burning embassies because of a cartoon. We would want to show our readers what all the fuss was about. — Ezra Levant

In a way, the political cartoon drawings are things that are small and have humor and a childhood aesthetic and are often stronger to spread an opinion. — Camille Henrot

The political cartoon, in a way, is one of the highest forms of expression about our times. I don't believe in dramatic statements when it comes to political critique. It doesn't communicate in a way that's subversive enough. — Camille Henrot

To keep doing this job [draw political cartoons] week after week, I think you have to want to change the world, while understanding that you can't. You have to hold both of those contradictory ideas simultaneously. — Tom Tomorrow

I don't think that what I'm doing [political cartooning] is necessarily left versus right. What I'm addressing is top versus bottom. If I'm not spending a lot of time making fun of the more extreme elements of the Green Party, it's because what I do is to critique power. — Tom Tomorrow

I wasn't having any luck getting accepted anyway and it forced me to re-examine what it was that I really wanted to do. In my experience in political cartooning, I was never one of those people who read the headlines and foams at the mouth with rabid opinion that I've just got to get down on paper. — Bill Watterson

I also do political cartoons, but a lot of them must stay, as they say, under the coat. But they are very fun to do, and in France, we have a good subject at the moment. — Karl Lagerfeld

Politicians And Politics Quotes

As long as judges tinker with the Constitution to 'do what the people want,' instead of what the document actually commands, politicians who pick and confirm new federal judges will naturally want only those who agree with them politically. — Antonin Scalia

An honest public servant can't become rich in politics. He can only attain greatness and satisfaction by service. — Harry S. Truman

A guy named Adolf Hitler won an election in 1932 ... and 50 million people died as a result ... what I learned as a little kid is that politics is, in fact, very important. — Bernie Sanders

No one will really understand politics until they understand that politicians are not trying to solve our problems. They are trying to solve their own problems - of which getting elected and re-elected are number one and number two. Whatever is number three is far behind. — Thomas Sowell

We find two great gangs of political speculators, who alternately take possession of the state power and exploit it by the most corrupt ends -- the nation is powerless against these two great cartels of politicians who are ostensibly its servants, but in reality dominate and plunder it. — Friedrich Engels

Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country - and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians. — Charles Krauthammer

The rich will strive to establish their dominion and enslave the rest. They always did...they always will. They will have the same effect here as elsewhere, if we do not, by the power of government, keep them in their proper spheres. — Gouverneur Morris

If one meets a powerful person--Adolf Hitler, Joe Stalin or Bill Gates--ask them five questions: "What power have you got? Where did you get it from? In whose interests do you exercise it? To whom are you accountable? And how can we get rid of you? — Tony Benn

He was the only man I ever knew who could get money from the rich and votes from the poor with the promise to protect them from each other. — Tommy Douglas

We have no eternal allies, and we have not perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal and perpetual, and those interests it is our duty to follow. — Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston

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More Politics Funny Quotes

A businessman cannot force you to buy his product; if he makes a mistake, he suffers the consequences; if he fails, he takes the loss. If bureaucrat makes a mistake, you suffer the consequences; if he fails, he passes the loss on to you. — Ayn Rand

To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first, and call whatever you hit the target — Ashleigh Brilliant

I think the Republican party should be placed in drydock and have the barnacles scraped off its bottom. — Tallulah Bankhead

A drug is not bad. A drug is a chemical compound. The problem comes in when people who take drugs treat them like a license to behave like an asshole. — Frank Zappa

As we go from Abraham Lincoln to Theodore Roosevelt to Mitt Romney, I now understand why the Republicans don't believe in evolution. — Andy Borowitz

I want you to know that also I will not make age an issue of this campaign. I am not going to exploit, for political purposes, my opponent's youth and inexperience. — Ronald Reagan

A man said to the universe: 'Sir, I exist!' 'However,' replied the universe. 'The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation. — Stephen Crane

I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it. — Evelyn Beatrice Hall

The baby Jesus was the last homeless person the Republicans liked. — Andy Borowitz

Yes, we do defend our office as we do defend our homes. This is a constitutional right everybody has, and nothing's funny about that. The only reason they get mad at the Black Panther Party when you do it is for the simple reason that we're political. — Fred Hampton

If you want government to intervene domestically, you’re a liberal. If you want government to intervene overseas, you’re a conservative. If you want government to intervene everywhere, you’re a moderate. If you don’t want government to intervene anywhere, you’re an extremist. — Joseph Sobran

Paul Ryan's love for Rage Against The Machine is amusing, because he is the embodiment of the machine that our music has been raging against for two decades — Tom Morello

It would be nice to spend billions on schools and roads, but right now that money is desperately needed for political ads. — Andy Borowitz

I don't know a lot about politics, but I can recognise a good party man when I see one. — Mae West

If you want a friend in Washington, buy a dog. — Harry S. Truman

I believe Ronald Reagan can make this country what it once was... an Arctic region covered with ice. — Steve Martin

The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it. — Harry S. Truman

Say something idiotic and nobody but a dog politely wags his tail. — Virginia Graham

REFERENDUM, n. A law for submission of proposed legislation to a popular vote to learn the nonsensus of public opinion. — Ambrose Bierce

There are always too many Democratic congressmen, too many Republican congressmen, and never enough U.S. congressmen. — Sydney J. Harris

Congress is furious at the Secret Service for consorting with hookers, which has traditionally been Congress's role. — Andy Borowitz

There is no difference between religion and politics. Both involve lies and fanatical beliefs that generaly defy logic... Just like rock climbing. — David Schuller

If it turns out that President Barack Obama can make a deal with the most intransigent, hard-line, unreasonable, totalitarian mullahs in the world but not with Republicans? Maybe he's not the problem. — Jon Stewart

Dogs are great assets to candidates, and the feeling seems to be engendered that if a dog loves the candidate, he can't be all that bad. — Dick Gregory

I've been a politician and so I'm sometimes cynical about what politicians won't do. When I hear a politician say something that makes no sense whatsoever, I think there's one of two things there: There's money or the promise of money. — Allan Boesak

Every week Republicans are excited about a new candidate because the one they liked last week turned out to be a moron. — Andy Borowitz

A republican stands up in congress and says 'I GOT A REALLY BAD IDEA!!' and the democrat stands up after him and says 'AND I CAN MAKE IT SHITTIER!! — Lewis Black

When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship. — Harry S. Truman

If our Founding Fathers wanted us to care about the rest of the world, they wouldn't have declared their independence from it. — Stephen Colbert

On July 4 we celebrate government of the people, by the people, and for the people, or as they are now called, corporations. — Andy Borowitz

Freedom of press is limited to those who own one. — H. L. Mencken

Funny that all of Nixon's crimes - anonymous campaign cash, wiretapping, undeclared wars - are all legal now. Discuss. — Bill Maher

You can't say 'I don't do politics,' because silence is a political statement. — Tariq Ramadan

What does politically correct mean? If you're fat, don't ask me if you're fat, because I'm gonna tell you the truth. You're fat. — Charles Barkley

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