Roman Empire in the 21st Century

All politics is applesauce. - Will Rogers

Rome wasn't built in A.D. - Flann O'Brien

In politics nothing is contemptible. - Benjamin Disraeli

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

In politics the middle way is none at all. - John Adams

Everybody knows politics is a contact sport. - Barrack Obama

Intelligence has nothing to do with politics. - Londo Molari

Emperor Negro, who fiddled while Rome burned. - Archie Bunker

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

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory. - John Kenneth Galbraith

Self-government won't work without self-discipline. - Paul Harvey

Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets. - Ronald Reagan

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance. - Robert Frost

I don't go around signin' no political documentaries. - Archie Bunker

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

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

It's a terrible shame that politics has become show business. - Sydney Pollack

I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat. - Will Rogers

The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop. - P.J. O'Rourke

I love Canada. I am from Canada. I will bash the Canadian government but never Canada. - Jason Priestley

Everyone wants to eat at the government's table, but nobody wants to do the dishes. - Werner Finck

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. - P.J. O'Rourke

Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it. - Tom Robbins

The plague fell upon the whole world.. not a single man in the whole Roman Empire could escape. - Procopius

So, if we lie to the government, it's a felony.
But if they lie to us, it's politics. - Bill Murray

A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them. - P.J. O'Rourke

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

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

One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government. - Donald Trump

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

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

The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning. - Theodor Adorno

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.)

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

The business of government is to keep the government out of business - that is, unless business needs government aid. - Will Rogers

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

It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen. - George MacDonald

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men. - Plato

A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life. - John Stuart Mill