Here Comes Trouble

The trouble with law is lawyers. - Clarence Darrow

Liberty is the right to silence. - Unknown

Politics have no relation to morals. - Niccolo Machiavelli

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

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

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

The trouble with facts is that there are so many of them. - Samuel Crothers

The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression. - W.E.B. Du Bois

Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party. - Herbert Hoover

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. - George Bernard Shaw

We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy. - Martin L. Gross

Liberty don't work as good in practice as it does in speeches. - Will Rogers

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

To lodge all power in one party and keep it there is to insure bad government. - Mark Twain

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

To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble. - Mark Twain

My sheer existence is like a political act to a lot of people. It's not to me. - Grimes

No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session. - Mark Twain

People pay the doctor for his trouble; for his kindness they still remain in his debt. - Seneca

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

Marriages are all happy. It's having breakfast together that causes all the trouble. - Irish Proverb

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

The trouble with eating Italian food is that five or six days later, you're hungry again. - George Miller

Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is, I don't know which half. - John Wannamaker

If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done. - Scott Adams

He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career. - George Bernard Shaw

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

A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have. - Thomas Jefferson

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

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

Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism. - Claude McKay

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

At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else. - Shirley Chisholm

I have certain rules I live by. My first rule: I don't believe anything the government tells me. Nothing. Zero. - George Carlin

God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny. - Garrison Keillor

Every country must be absolutely free to adopt the type of economic, political and social system that it considers convenient. - Fidel Castro

When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale. - John W. Gardner

These are stupid people that say, "Oh didn't Trump declare bankruptcy? Didn't he go bankrupt?" I didn't go bankrupt. - Donald Trump

In a world of complex threats, our security and leadership depends on all elements of our power - including strong and principled diplomacy. - Barack Obama

I once said to my father, when I was a boy, 'Dad we need a third political party.' He said to me, 'I'll settle for a second.' - Ralph Nader