Politics Phrases

Phrases

• A political carnival
• A prisoner of conscience
• A week is a long time in politics
• Absolute power corrupts absolutely (quotation by Lord Acton)
• After the Lord Mayor's parade
• Anyway you please it, cheese it (Cheese Council advertising slogan)
• Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party?
• As drunk as a lord
• Attila The Hen (Nickname of Margaret Thatcher)
• Beauty contest (a political contest in which the result is infuenced by personality and image more than by policy)
• Beauty parade (a political contest in which the result is infuenced by personality and image more than by policy)
• Bedroom politics
• Billion Dollar Man (Nickname of American politician Henry Nowak)
• Black and white unite and fight (Political slogan)
• Body politic
• Brights movement
• Bush Derangement Syndrome
• Can't pay, won't pay (Political slogan)
• Cattle show
• Don't vote; it only encourages them (Anarchist political slogan)
• Education education education (Tony Blair political slogan)
• Ethnic stocking (the appointment to political office on the basis of ethnicity)
• Four more years (Presidential election slogan)
• Four score and seven years ago
• Gesture politics
• Government is not the solution to our problems; government is the problem (Political slogan)
• Guns before butter (Political slogan)
• High speed gas (Gas Council advertising slogan)
• How long, O Lord, how long?
• I did not have sexual relations with that woman
• I didn't inhale clinton drugs
• I like Ike (Political slogan)
• I never inhaled
• I'm Ross, and you're the Boss (Ross Perot slogan)
• I'm from the government, and I'm here to help
• I'm not a crook
• I'm the decider (Political slogan)
• Ich bin ein Berliner
• If drafted, I will not run; if nominated, I will not accept; if elected, I will not serve
• If you vote for Goldwater, you'll get a war in Vietnam (Political slogan)
• If you want to get ahead, get a hat (Hat Council advertising slogan)
• International incident
• Iowa's Leading Edge (Nickname of Council Bluffs Iowa)
• It doesn't matter who you vote for, the government always gets in
• It's the economy stupid (Political slogan)
• Just say no (A catchphrase from Nancy Reagan)
• Keynote speaker
• Leave no child behind (Political slogan)
• Let me make one thing perfectly clear
• Live like a lord
• Lord Clark of Civilisation (Nickname of Kenneth Clark)
• Lord Fred (Cockney rhyming slang for bed)
• Lord Haw-Haw (Nickname of William Joyce)
• Lord Of The Flies (William Golding book)
• Lord Of The Rings (J R R Tolkien book)
• Lord it over
• Lord love a duck
• Mission Accomplished (Political slogan)
• Mistakes have been made
• Mister Gorbachev, tear down this wall! (A slogan from President Reagan)
• Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall (Political slogan)
• My Sweet Lord (George Harrison song)
• My fellow Americans
• My precious (The Lord of the Rings: Two Towers)
• Naughty but nice (National Dairy Council advertising slogan)
• Number 10 Downing Street (address of the British Prime Minister)
• Office politics
• One man: one vote
• Only Nixon could go to China
• Paddy Pantsdown (Nickname of English politician Paddy Ashdown)
• Party political broadcast
• People's republic (a communist state)
• Play the race card
• Political animal
• Political correctness gone mad
• Political football
• Political high ground
• Political landscape
• Politically correct
• Pork barrel politics
• Pork, the other white meat (National Pork Council advertising slogan)
• Praise the lord and pass the ammunition
• Purple America
• Radical chic
• Read my lips, no new taxes (Political slogan)
• Rock the vote
• Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy (Political slogan)
• She who must be obeyed (Nickname of Margaret Thatcher)
• Show me the spot (Abraham Lincoln quotation)
• Slick Willy (Nickname of Bill Clinton)
• Split the vote
• Take a bite out of crime! (National Crime Prevention Council advertising slogan)
• Tea Party Express
• Tea party Taliban
• That depends on what your definition of is is
• The Bamboo Curtain (notional barrier between capitalist West and communist China)
• The Beast of Bolsover (Nickname of English politician Dennis Skinner)
• The Blessed Margaret (Nickname of Margaret Thatcher)
• The Boy David (Nickname of English politician David Steel)
• The Chingford Strangler (Nickname of English politician Norman Tebbit)
• The Comeback Kid (Nickname of Bill Clinton)
• The Great Communicator (Nickname of Ronald Reagan)
• The Grey Eagle (Nickname of Tris Speaker)
• The Grocer's Daughter (Nickname of Margaret Thatcher)
• The Houses of Parliament (tourist attraction in London England)
• The Iron Curtain (notional barrier between capitalist West and communist states)
• The Iron Lady (Nickname of Margaret Thatcher)
• The Lord of the Idiots (Nickname of George Costanza (Jason Alexander))
• The Lord of the Rings (J R R Tolkien story and Peter Jackson movie)
• The Minister of Defense (Nickname of Reggie White)
• The Prime Minister of Mirth (Nickname of George Robey)
• The buck stops here (A political slogan by Harry S Truman)
• The favoured of the Lord
• The next president of the United States
• The only thing we have to fear is fear itself (Political slogan)
• The valley of the shadow of death (line from Psalm 23)
• There he goes again (Political slogan)
• There is no alternative (Political slogan)
• Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime (Tony Blair political slogan)
• Up the revolution (Political slogan)
• Vote of conscience
• Vote with your feet
• We are all republicans, we are all federalists
• We found the weapons of mass destruction
• We shall not be moved (Political slogan)
• Well, actually, he forgot Poland
• Whoever you vote for the government gets in (Anarchist political slogan)
• Yellow dog Democrat
• Yes Minister (BBC comedy television series)
• You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore