Clinton Portrait

Jazz is democracy in music. - Wynton Marsalis

The world is governed by opinion. - William E. Channing

Politics is the art of the possible. - Otto von Bismarck

Liberty, once lost, is lost forever. - John Adams

The gun is not out of Irish politics. - Ian Paisley

Television is democracy at its ugliest. - Paddy Chayefsky

Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs. - Isaiah Berlin

In politics the middle way is none at all. - John Adams

Intelligence has nothing to do with politics. - Londo Molari

All government, of course, is against liberty. - H L Mencken

I never vote for anyone; I always vote against. - WC Fields

Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you. - Ralph Nader

America is a land where men govern, but women rule. - John M Brown

I love a dog. He does nothing for political reasons. - Will Rogers

Most bad government results from too much government. - Thomas Jefferson

The Golden Rule has no place in a political campaign. - John J Ingalls

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

In politics, a lie unanswered becomes truth within 24 hours. - Willie Brown

I don't go around signin' no political documentaries. - Archie Bunker

You can't get rich in politics unless you're a crook. - Harry S Truman

A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top. - James Reston

We have the best government in the world... that money can buy. - Mark Twain

World War II was the last government program that really worked. - George Will

Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy. - Sir Peter Ustinov

The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world. - Reinhold Niebuhr

Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least. - Robert Byrne

To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy. - Will Durant

I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. - Will Rogers

University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. - Henry Kissinger

The trouble with free elections is, you never know who is going to get in. - Leonid Brezhnev

In a democracy the majority has every right to act as stupid as the minority. - Frank Dane

I do have a political agenda. It's to have as few regulations as possible. - Dan Quayle

The police force cannot be completely independent of the executive government. - P Chidambaram

The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy. - Theodore White

Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame. - Bertrand Russell

Hillary Clinton is not going to be able to create jobs, I will tell you right now. - Donald Trump

Personally, I'm against political jokes. Too often they get elected to office. - Henny Youngman

Everyone wants to eat at the government's table, but nobody wants to do the dishes. - Werner Finck

When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy. - Charles de Secondat

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. - P.J. O'Rourke

There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you. - Will Rogers

To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy. - Bertrand Russell

Officialese: A government language where you can understand the words, but not the sentences - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

The difference between death and taxes is death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets. - Will Rogers

It's our experience that political leaders don't always mean the opposite of what they say. - Abba Eban

The man who can make others laugh secures more votes for a measure than the man who forces them to think. - Malcolm de Chazal

I don't look for much to come out of government ownership as long as we have Democrats and Republicans. - Kin Hubbard

I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone. - H L Mencken

Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism. - Claude McKay

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. - Plato

The only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in keeping their money in their own pockets. - Lysander Spooner

Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless. - Milton Friedman

The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not. - Thomas Jefferson

Everyone has a skeleton in their closet. The difference between Bill Clinton and myself is that he has a walk-in closet. - Pat Buchanan

If the government was as afraid of disturbing the consumer as it is of disturbing business, this would be some democracy. - Kin Hubbard

Freedom has many difficulties and democracy is not perfect. But we have never had to put a wall up to keep our people in. - John F Kennedy

I'm not interested in cutting the feet off my characters or stretching them to make them fit my certain political view. - Margaret Atwood

It was revealed in a government survey published today that the Prime Minister is doing the work of two men, Laurel and Hardy. - Ronnie Corbett

In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress. - John Adams

We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both. - Louis D. Branders

Be known for pleasing others, espcecially if you govern them... Ruling others has one advantage: you can do more good than anyone else. - Baltasar Gracian

Politics is 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

When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale. - John W. Gardner

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my country. I make up for lost time when I am at home. - Winston Churchill

Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the Government take care of him, better take a closer look at the American Indian. - Henry Ford