Quotes About Dogs & Politics

“Millie, the young Springer, is sitting beside me, head in my lap as I type, practicing the "spaniel gaze." At sixteen months she's already got it down. The spaniel heart is warm. The soft spaniel eye brims with love. If ever the world's diplomats and arms negotiators learn the spaniel
gaze there will be peace on earth.”
Larry Shook

“America is a large friendly dog in a small room.
Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair.”
Arnold Toynbee

“Children and dogs are as necessary to the welfare of the country as
Wall Street and the railroads.”
Harry S. Truman

“You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.”
Harry S. Truman

“The unpleasant sound Bush is emitting as he traipses from one conservative gathering to another is a thin, tinny "arf" —
the sound of a lap dog.”
George Will

“I may have grown cynical from long service, but this is a tendency I do not like, and I sometimes think I'd rather be a dog and bay at the moon than stay in the Senate another six years and listen to it.”
John Sharp Williams

“His name is Rufus II — but the II is silent.”
Winston Churchill talking about his second dog,
after the death of the first one, Rufus.

Oh, what is the matter with poor Puggy-Wug?
Pet him and kiss him and give him a hug.
Run and fetch him a suitable drug.
Wrap him up tenderly all in a rug.
That is the way to cure Puggy-Wug.
Winston Churchill regarding his young daughter's pug