QuotaBillsMan is by nature a political animal. - Aristotle
Politics is just show business for ugly people. - Jay Leno
The Golden Rule has no place in a political campaign. - John J Ingalls
The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression. - W.E.B. Du Bois
Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance. - Robert Frost
A diplomat is a man who thinks twice before he says nothing. - Unknown
You can't get rich in politics unless you're a crook. - Harry S Truman
Democracy! Bah! When I hear that word I reach for my feather Boa. - Allen Ginsberg
The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government. - Edward Abbey
Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week. - Will Rogers
We would all like to vote for the best man but he is never a candidate. - Kin Hubbard
To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy. - Will Durant
In politics, madame, you need two things: friends, but above all an enemy. - Brian Mulroney
Government of the people, by the people, and for the pursuit of happiness. - Archie Bunker
In a democracy the majority has every right to act as stupid as the minority. - Frank Dane
American Politics: A form of socialism for the rich, including the politicians. - Gregory Nunn
Democracy is also a form of religion; it is the worship of jackals by jackasses. - H L Mencken
A filmmaker we almost lost to politics... my friend and colleague, Warren Beatty. - Jack Nicholson
Personally, I'm against political jokes. Too often they get elected to office. - Henny Youngman
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people, by the people, for the people. - Oscar Wilde
Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. - P.J. O'Rourke
In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man; if you want anything done, ask a woman. - Margaret Thatcher
Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it. - Tom Robbins
I have a wonderful make-up crew. They're the same people restoring the Statue of Liberty. - Bob Hope
In Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination. - Irving Layton
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
A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have. - Thomas Jefferson
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer. - Will Rogers
Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you. - Pericles (430 B.C.)
Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. - Benjamin Franklin
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's especially hard if the government is not providing services, or is even conducting ethnic cleansing against you. - Paul Harvey
If the government was as afraid of disturbing the consumer as it is of disturbing business, this would be some democracy. - Kin Hubbard
We study the glory of God, and the honour and liberty of parliament, for which we fight, without seeking our own interests. - Oliver Cromwell
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
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
Regarded simply as a politician, and compared with the other leading political figures of our time, how clean a smell he has managed to leave behind. - Mahatma Gandhi
Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments. - Isaac Asimov