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Man is by nature a political animal. - Aristotle

In politics an absurdity is not a handicap. - Napoleon Bonaparte

Everybody knows politics is a contact sport. - Barrack Obama

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

If men were angels, no government would be necessary. - James Madison

The Golden Rule has no place in a political campaign. - John J Ingalls

Sarcasm - because beating the crap out of people is illegal. - Unknown

In politics, a lie unanswered becomes truth within 24 hours. - Willie Brown

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

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

Commitments the voters don’t know about can't hurt you. - Ogden Nash

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

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

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

I do have a political agenda. It's to have as few regulations as possible. - Dan Quayle

American Politics: A form of socialism for the rich, including the politicians. - Gregory Nunn

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

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

The difference between death and taxes is death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets. - Will Rogers

In Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination. - Irving Layton

The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare. - Daniel P Moynihan

Ex-Presidents of the United States get state subsidies. Not so in Russia. You get no government support. - Mikhail Gorbachev

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

When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves. - George Pataki

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

They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men. - Clare Boothe Luce

One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are. - Cal Thomas

I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress. - Ronald Reagan

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

I'm not interested in cutting the feet off my characters or stretching them to make them fit my certain political view. - Margaret Atwood

The nine most terrifying words in the English language are,
"I'm from the government and I'm here to help." - Ronald Reagan

The workers' and peasants' government proposes to all warring peoples... negotiations leading to a just, democratic peace. - Lenin

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other. - Voltaire

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

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

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. - Aristotle

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

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