Roman Empire in the 21st Century
When in U.S., do as the politicians do
Party guests from left to right: Tim Geithner, John Kerry, KSM, Oprah,
Nancy Pelosi, Joe Biden, Axelrod, Barack Obama, Michelle Obama,
Hillary Clinton, Party Crashers #1, Rahm Emanuel, Eric Holder,
Party Crashers #2, Harry Reid, John Edwards, Bluto, Andy Stern, Bill Clinton,
Chris Matthews, Keith Olbermann, Barney Frank, Kevin Jennings
Statues left to right: Che Guevara, Saul Alinsky, Obama, Chairman Mao, Lenin
QuotaBillsAll 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