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All politics is local. - Thomas P O'Neil

A week is a long time in politics. - Harold Wilson

There is no gambling like politics. - Benjamin Disraeli

Intelligence has nothing to do with politics. - Londo Molari

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts. - Henry Brooks Adams

I never saw anything funnier than Texas politics. - Molly Ivins

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

Bulldozing: Going to sleep during a political speech. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

There can be no wise politics without thought beforehand. - Annie Besant

Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets. - Ronald Reagan

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

Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity. - Albert Einstein

I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent. - Edith Sitwell

The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government. - Edward Abbey

Politics is a profession where the paths of glory lead but to the gravy. - Billy Boy Franklin

Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure. - Bertrand Russell

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

No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power. - Jacob Bronowski

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

Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it. - Laurence J Peter

I love Canada. I am from Canada. I will bash the Canadian government but never Canada. - Jason Priestley

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

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it. - Mark Twain

In Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination. - Irving Layton

A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have. - Thomas Jefferson

Animals are like little children a bit. They're simple. They don't have politics driving them. - Annabelle Sabloff

One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government. - Donald Trump

Politics: Poli, a Latin word meaning "many"; and tics, meaning "bloodsucking creatures." - Robin Williams

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

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

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand. - Milton Friedman

At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else. - Shirley Chisholm

Politics is the only business where doing nothing other than making the other guy look bad is an acceptable outcome. - Mark Warner

In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate. - Charles de Gaulle

It's especially hard if the government is not providing services, or is even conducting ethnic cleansing against you. - Paul Harvey

It would be nice to spend billions on schools and roads, but right now that money is desperately needed for political ads. - Andy Borowitz

Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. - Ronald Reagan

Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people. - Joe Biden

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. - Aristotle

Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don't vote. - Paul Harvey