QuotaBillsDiplomacy: Lying in state. - Oliver Herford
Good government is good politics. - Richard J. Daley
There is no gambling like politics. - Benjamin Disraeli
Voters want a fraud they can believe in. - Will Durst
In politics an absurdity is not a handicap. - Napoleon Bonaparte
Man is not free unless government is limited. - Ronald Reagan
Every country has the government it deserves. - Joseph de Maistre
Talk is cheap... except when Congress does it. - Unknown
All government, of course, is against liberty. - H L Mencken
Politics is the art of controlling your environment. - Hunter S. Thompson
Government is an endless pursuit of new ways to tax. - Unknown
I'm not a politician. I've only got one face. - Brendan Behan
Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory. - John Kenneth Galbraith
Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets. - Ronald Reagan
World War II was the last government program that really worked. - George Will
For every action, there is an equal and opposite government program. - Bob Wells
Politics is the chloroform of the Irish people, or, rather the hashish. - Oliver St. John Gogarty
Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote. - William E. Simon
I do have a political agenda. It's to have as few regulations as possible. - Dan Quayle
A filmmaker we almost lost to politics... my friend and colleague, Warren Beatty. - Jack Nicholson
A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. - George Bernard Shaw
Of all the tasks of government, the most basic is to protect its citizens from violence. - John Foster Dulles
We could certainly slow the aging process down if it had to work its way through Congress. - Will Rogers
So, if we lie to the government, it's a felony.
But if they lie to us, it's politics. - Bill Murray
Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one. - Thomas Paine
Democracy is very different in U.S. and A. from Kazakhstan. In America, woman can vote, but horse cannot! - Borat Sagdiyev
Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. - Frederic Bastiat
The largest party in America is neither the Democrats nor the Republicans. It's the party of non-voters. - Robert Reich
Harold MacMillan is a very intelligent man, who, as so often happens in politics, achieved supreme power too late. - Malcolm Muggeridge
Taxpayer - someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination. - Ronald Reagan
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote. - Benjamin Franklin
What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those? - Gilbert Highet
It would be nice to spend billions on schools and roads, but right now that money is desperately needed for political ads. - Andy Borowitz
I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend. - Thomas Jefferson
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
Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten. - Neil Gaiman
The workers' and peasants' government proposes to all warring peoples... negotiations leading to a just, democratic peace. - Lenin
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
I once said to my father, when I was a boy, 'Dad we need a third political party.' He said to me, 'I'll settle for a second.' - Ralph Nader