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

There is no gambling like politics. - Benjamin Disraeli

Talk is cheap... except when Congress does it. - Unknown

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

We are all of us the worse for too much liberty. - Terence

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

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

The art of government is the organization of idolatry. - George Bernard Shaw

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

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. - George Bernard Shaw

Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows - marriage does. - Groucho Marx

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

I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together. - Gerald R. Ford

Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest thing in the nicest way. - Isaac Goldberg

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

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

For every action, there is an equal and opposite government program. - Bob Wells

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

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

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

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

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

I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death. - Patrick Henry

My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight. - John F Kennedy

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

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

I must study politics and war that my sons may have the liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. - John Adams

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. - H L Mencken

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

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 crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up. - Jay Leno

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

Love, like democracy, can survive almost any attack - except neglect, indifference and maybe an arrow in the back. - Unknown

One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President. - Lyndon B. Johnson

We're at a point in history where everyone needs to pay attention to politics. Too much is at stake for us to be apathetic. - Kevin Costner

A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election. - Bill Vaughan

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

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

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

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