Clinton Portrait

Jazz is democracy in music. - Wynton Marsalis

Information is the currency of democracy. - Unknown

In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith. - J. William Fulbright

From politics, it was an easy step to silence. - Jane Austen

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

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

Liberty is never being too sure you're right. - Learned Hand

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business. - Winston Churchill

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun. - R Buckminster Fuller

The problem with political jokes is they get elected. - Henry Cate, VII

If men were angels, no government would be necessary. - James Madison

All diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means. - Zhou Enlai

Self-government won't work without self-discipline. - Paul Harvey

I greet you in the name of peace, democracy, and freedom. - Nelson Mandela

Government cannot and must not replace private initiative. - Kim Campbell

Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party. - Herbert Hoover

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

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

An honest man in politics shines more than he would elsewhere. - Mark Twain

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

How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese? - Charles de Gaulle

Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. - Charles de Gaulle

There is no distinctly American criminal class - except Congress. - Mark Twain

It's a terrible shame that politics has become show business. - Sydney Pollack

Liberty don't work as good in practice as it does in speeches. - Will Rogers

Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide issues. - George Will

The most important political office is that of the private citizen. - Louis D. Brandeis

Passion and prejudice govern the world, only under the name of reason. - John Wesley

Ultimatum: In diplomacy, a last demand before resorting to concessions - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed. - Mao Zedong

Every woman dreams of her own political career and her own place in life. - Raisa M. Gorbachev

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

Government of the people, by the people, and for the pursuit of happiness. - Archie Bunker

Government can't give us anything without depriving us of something else. - Henry Hazlitt

The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop. - P.J. O'Rourke

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

My sheer existence is like a political act to a lot of people. It's not to me. - Grimes

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business. - Tom Robbins

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

Of all the tasks of government, the most basic is to protect its citizens from violence. - John Foster Dulles

That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves. - Thomas Jefferson

I am on your Walk of Fame in Toronto. My sense of humour is Canadian. But I can't vote. - Donald Sutherland

In a democracy, the one thing that cannot be done is to destroy its trust, its hope, its idealism. - Teresa Heinz

So, if we lie to the government, it's a felony.
But if they lie to us, it's politics. - Bill Murray

The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare. - Daniel P Moynihan

My love life is terrible. The last time I was inside a woman was when I visited the Statue of Liberty. - Woody Allen

Ex-Presidents of the United States get state subsidies. Not so in Russia. You get no government support. - Mikhail Gorbachev

Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave. - Henry Brougham

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

When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power. - Maggie Gallagher

Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to my conscience, above all liberties. - John Milton

The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning. - Theodor Adorno

I have certain rules I live by. My first rule: I don't believe anything the government tells me. Nothing. Zero. - George Carlin

The business of government is to keep the government out of business - that is, unless business needs government aid. - Will Rogers

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

Happiness is being content with what you have, living in freedom and liberty, having a good family life and good friends. - Divyanka Tripathi

I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other. - Napoleon Bonaparte

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

When it comes to politics, I sit down on a sofa and grab some popcorn - or sometimes I crouch down in order not to get shot. - Sergey Galitsky

Every country must be absolutely free to adopt the type of economic, political and social system that it considers convenient. - Fidel Castro

I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters, okay? It's, like, incredible. - Donald Trump

Papers say: 'Congress is deadlocked and can't act.' I think that is the greatest blessing that could befall this country. - Will Rogers

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

If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep. - Will Rogers

The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed. - Publilius Syrus