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Diplomacy: Lying in state. - Oliver Herford

Jazz is democracy in music. - Wynton Marsalis

Politics is an inexact science. - Otto von Bismarck

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One cannot govern with "buts." - Charles de Gaulle

Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs. - Isaiah Berlin

Information is the currency of democracy. - Unknown

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

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

Talk is cheap... except when Congress does it. - Unknown

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

I never vote for anyone; I always vote against. - WC Fields

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

Liberty is never being too sure you're right. - Learned Hand

Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you. - Ralph Nader

I love a dog. He does nothing for political reasons. - Will Rogers

Government cannot and must not replace private initiative. - Kim Campbell

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

Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity. - Albert Einstein

World War II was the last government program that really worked. - George Will

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

There is no distinctly American criminal class - except Congress. - Mark Twain

Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy. - Sir Peter Ustinov

The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government. - Edward Abbey

Passion and prejudice govern the world, only under the name of reason. - John Wesley

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

Politics is the chloroform of the Irish people, or, rather the hashish. - Oliver St. John Gogarty

Something in the air this morning made me feel like flying... Spring Flight - Eileen Granfors

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

Government can't give us anything without depriving us of something else. - Henry Hazlitt

In a democracy the majority has every right to act as stupid as the minority. - Frank Dane

Not the cry, but the flight of a wild duck, leads the flock to fly and follow. - Chinese Proverb

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

The only thing we learn from new elections is we learned nothing from the old. - American Proverb

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

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

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power. - Aldous Huxley

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

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people, by the people, for the people. - Oscar Wilde

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

We could certainly slow the aging process down if it had to work its way through Congress. - Will Rogers

To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy. - Bertrand Russell

The difference between death and taxes is death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets. - Will Rogers

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

The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare. - Daniel P Moynihan

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 believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone. - H L Mencken

Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds. - John P Barlow

They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men. - Clare Boothe Luce

Love, like democracy, can survive almost any attack - except neglect, indifference and maybe an arrow in the back. - Unknown

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

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote. - Benjamin Franklin

The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not. - Thomas Jefferson

If the government was as afraid of disturbing the consumer as it is of disturbing business, this would be some democracy. - Kin Hubbard

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

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book. - Ronald Reagan

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

In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress. - John Adams

We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both. - Louis D. Branders

Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the Government take care of him, better take a closer look at the American Indian. - Henry Ford

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

Being in politics is like being a football coach; you have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important. - Eugene McCarthy

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