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

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

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

Government is an endless pursuit of new ways to tax. - Unknown

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

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

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

World War II was the last government program that really worked. - George Will

You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think. - Milton Berle

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

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

The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world. - Reinhold Niebuhr

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

In politics, madame, you need two things: friends, but above all an enemy. - Brian Mulroney

Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will. - Mikhail Bakunin

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

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. - H L Mencken

Either the government will be given to us or we shall seize it by marching on Rome. - Benito Mussolini

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

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

We could certainly slow the aging process down if it had to work its way through Congress. - Will Rogers

What right does Congress have to go around making laws just because they deem it necessary? - Marion Barry

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

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

Good thing we've still got politics in Texas - finest form of free entertainment ever invented. - Molly Ivins

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. - Frederic Bastiat

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

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. - Plato

Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds. - Thurgood Marshall

Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless. - Milton Friedman

Frankly, I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry. - Joseph Heller

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

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy. - Groucho Marx

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

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

When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale. - John W. Gardner

Being in politics is like being a football coach; you have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important. - Eugene McCarthy