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Politics makes strange red-fellows. - Will Rogers

There is no gambling like politics. - Benjamin Disraeli

Man is by nature a political animal. - Aristotle

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

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

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory. - John Kenneth Galbraith

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

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

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

An honest man in politics shines more than he would elsewhere. - Mark Twain

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

Ultimatum: In diplomacy, a last demand before resorting to concessions - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. - Henry Kissinger

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

Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will. - Mikhail Bakunin

Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure. - Bertrand Russell

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

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

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

Either the government will be given to us or we shall seize it by marching on Rome. - Benito Mussolini

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. - P.J. O'Rourke

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

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

Politics, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong. - Richard Armour

Animals are like little children a bit. They're simple. They don't have politics driving them. - Annabelle Sabloff

A diplomat is someone who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you will look forward to the trip. - Caskie Stinnett

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

Taxpayer - someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination. - Ronald Reagan

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

Canada's political parties spend a few years in opposition and then govern as if it's permanent payback time. - Bob Rae

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

It would be nice to spend billions on schools and roads, but right now that money is desperately needed for political ads. - Andy Borowitz

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

We're at a point in history where everyone needs to pay attention to politics. Too much is at stake for us to be apathetic. - Kevin Costner

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other. - Voltaire

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

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

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my country. I make up for lost time when I am at home. - Winston Churchill

Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments. - Isaac Asimov