(This came from The Washington Spectator.)

Politics has long been the answer to the wits prayer.

Examples:

Politics –the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and
campaign funds from the rich by promising to protect each from the
other. (Oscar Ameringer)

Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen
tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the
ability afterwards to explain why it didnt happen. (Winston
Churchill)

Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be President, but they
dont want them to become politicians in the process. (John F.
Kennedy)

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing
between the disastrous and the unpalatable. (John Kenneth Galbraith)

A statesman is a politician whos been dead 10 or 15 years. (Harry
S. Truman)

The quotes are excerpted from The Penguin Dictionary of Modern
Humorous Quotations.