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Politics makes strange postmasters. - Kin Hubbard

Man is by nature a political animal. - Aristotle

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

Liberty consists in doing what one desires. - John Stuart Mill

Intelligence has nothing to do with politics. - Londo Molari

In Congress, it's all pork, all the time. - Jim Cooper

Politics is just show business for ugly people. - Jay Leno

Those who trade liberty for security have neither. - John Adams

The problem with political jokes is they get elected. - Henry Cate, VII

Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows - marriage does. - Groucho Marx

A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves. - Bertrand de Jouvenel

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

We have the best government in the world... that money can buy. - Mark Twain

How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese? - Charles de Gaulle

I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together. - Gerald R. Ford

Idealism loses to pragmatism when it comes to winning elections. - Danny Strong

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

To deceive a diplomat speak the truth, he has no experience with it. - Greek Proverb

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office. - Thomas Jefferson

A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue. - Daniel Webster

If I wished to punish a province, I would have it governed by philosophers. - Frederick The Great

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. - Aristotle

Democracy used to be a good thing, but now it has gotten into the wrong hands. - Jesse Helms

Liberty is the right to do what I like; license, the right to do what you like. - Bertrand Russell

The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy. - Theodore White

To be safe at the expense of the liberty of other people is a difficult equation. - Madeleine Albright

Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame. - Bertrand Russell

Diplomacy is the art of saying, "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock. - Will Rogers

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

Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated. - Will Rogers

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

The trouble with free elections is that you never know how they are going to turn out. - Vyacheslav Molotov

Of all the tasks of government, the most basic is to protect its citizens from violence. - John Foster Dulles

I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death. - Patrick Henry

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. - George Bernard Shaw

I am on your Walk of Fame in Toronto. My sense of humour is Canadian. But I can't vote. - Donald Sutherland

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it. - Mark Twain

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. - Robert Frost

Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner. - James Bovard

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

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one. - Thomas Paine

I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast. - Viktor Frankl

The man who can make others laugh secures more votes for a measure than the man who forces them to think. - Malcolm de Chazal

I don't look for much to come out of government ownership as long as we have Democrats and Republicans. - Kin Hubbard

I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses. - Victor Hugo

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

The largest party in America is neither the Democrats nor the Republicans. It's the party of non-voters. - Robert Reich

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

In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate. - Charles de Gaulle

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

Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. - Ambrose Bierce

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

The most dangerous person of the world is a member of the United States Congress just home from a three-day fact-finding trip. - Johnny Isakson

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost. - John Quincy Adams

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

An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry. - George Eliot

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

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

I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters, okay? It's, like, incredible. - Donald Trump

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

Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don't vote. - Paul Harvey

In politics, as in womanizing, failure is decisive. It sheds its retrospective gloom on earlier endeavor which at the time seemed full of promise. - Malcolm Muggeridge

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

Be like the bird that, passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing that she hath wings. - Victor Hugo