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All politics is local. - Thomas P O'Neil

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

Man is by nature a political animal. - Aristotle

Politics have no relation to morals. - Niccolo Machiavelli

Crime does not pay as well as politics. - Alfred E. Newman

Feudalism: It's your Count that votes - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

Politics is the art of controlling your environment. - Hunter S. Thompson

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

The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia. - Otto von Bismarck

A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top. - James Reston

Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

There is a country in Europe where multiple-choice tests are illegal. - Sigfried Hulzer

Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote. - William E. Simon

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

Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing. - Bernard Baruch

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

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

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

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

It's our experience that political leaders don't always mean the opposite of what they say. - Abba Eban

Why pay money to have your family tree traced; go into politics and your opponents will do it for you. - Unknown

Politics, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong. - Richard Armour

The irony of the matter is that the future generations do not have a vote. In effect, we hold their proxy. - Charles J Hitch

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

The largest party in America is neither the Democrats nor the Republicans. It's the party of non-voters. - Robert Reich

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. - John Kenneth Galbraith

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

Harold MacMillan is a very intelligent man, who, as so often happens in politics, achieved supreme power too late. - Malcolm Muggeridge

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

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

If the government was as afraid of disturbing the consumer as it is of disturbing business, this would be some democracy. - Kin Hubbard

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

The most dangerous person of the world is a member of the United States Congress just home from a three-day fact-finding trip. - Johnny Isakson

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

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

In politics, as in womanizing, failure is decisive. It sheds its retrospective gloom on earlier endeavor which at the time seemed full of promise. - Malcolm Muggeridge

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