Roman Empire in the 21st Century

All politics is local. - Thomas P O'Neil

All politics is applesauce. - Will Rogers

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

Man is by nature a political animal. - Aristotle

Politics have no relation to morals. - Niccolo Machiavelli

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

Nero: A Roman who was careless with candles - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

All government, of course, is against liberty. - H L Mencken

I never saw anything funnier than Texas politics. - Molly Ivins

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun. - R Buckminster Fuller

Most bad government results from too much government. - Thomas Jefferson

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

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

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

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

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

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

The most important political office is that of the private citizen. - Louis D. Brandeis

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

Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed. - Mao Zedong

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

Government of the people, by the people, and for the pursuit of happiness. - Archie Bunker

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

The police force cannot be completely independent of the executive government. - P Chidambaram

A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. - George Bernard Shaw

They say Rome wasn't built in a day, but I wasn't in on that particular job. - Brian Clough

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

I think it's an absolute disaster that Australia, the government, allowed kangaroo culling. - Steve Irwin

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

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

The only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in keeping their money in their own pockets. - Lysander Spooner

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

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

Very few of these panic-mongers have any personal knowledge of the countries that are already under blackshirt government. - Lord Rothermere

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend. - Thomas Jefferson

When it comes to politics, I sit down on a sofa and grab some popcorn - or sometimes I crouch down in order not to get shot. - Sergey Galitsky

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

I am quite sure now that often in matters concerning religion and politics, a man's reasoning powers are not above the monkeys. - Mark Twain

If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep. - Will Rogers

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