QuotaBillsA week is a long time in politics. - Harold Wilson
In Congress, it's all pork, all the time. - Jim Cooper
Every country has the government it deserves. - Joseph de Maistre
Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom. - Hannah Arendt
The human race is governed by its imagination. - Napoleon Bonaparte
Politics is just show business for ugly people. - Jay Leno
Government is an endless pursuit of new ways to tax. - Unknown
The problem with political jokes is they get elected. - Henry Cate, VII
Political War: One in which everyone shoots from the lip - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
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
It's so much easier to throw rocks than it is to govern. - Karen Bass
Liberty: One of Imagination's most previous possessions. - Ambrose Bierce
In politics, a lie unanswered becomes truth within 24 hours. - Willie Brown
Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows - marriage does. - Groucho Marx
There is no such thing as part freedom: it is all or nothing. - Nelson Mandela
A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top. - James Reston
Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese? - Charles de Gaulle
There is no distinctly American criminal class - except Congress. - Mark Twain
People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge. - Lao-tzu
Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week. - Will Rogers
Passion and prejudice govern the world, only under the name of reason. - John Wesley
I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office. - Thomas Jefferson
Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed. - Mao Zedong
Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will. - Mikhail Bakunin
In a democracy the majority has every right to act as stupid as the minority. - Frank Dane
I do have a political agenda. It's to have as few regulations as possible. - Dan Quayle
The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy. - Theodore White
Democracy is also a form of religion; it is the worship of jackals by jackasses. - H L Mencken
Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower. - Hans Christian Andersen
Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame. - Bertrand Russell
The secret of political bargaining is to look more strong than what you really are. - Subhash Bose
Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism. - Bill Moyers
Nothing changes the gender equation more significantly than women's economic freedom. - Gloria Steinem
I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government. - Woody Allen
What right does Congress have to go around making laws just because they deem it necessary? - Marion Barry
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
If we do not believe in freedom of speech for those we despise, we do not believe in it at all. - Noam Chomsky
A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them. - P.J. O'Rourke
I must study politics and war that my sons may have the liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. - John Adams
Ex-Presidents of the United States get state subsidies. Not so in Russia. You get no government support. - Mikhail Gorbachev
Freedom is like drink. If you take any at all, you might as well take enough to make you happy for a while. - Finley P Dunne
One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government. - Donald Trump
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time. - E.B. White
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. - John Kenneth Galbraith
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
Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you. - Pericles (430 B.C.)
Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes. - Robert Kennedy
Harold MacMillan is a very intelligent man, who, as so often happens in politics, achieved supreme power too late. - Malcolm Muggeridge
Frankly, I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry. - Joseph Heller
He is one of those wise philanthropists who, in a time of famine, would vote for nothing but a supply of toothpicks. - Douglas Jerrold
What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those? - Gilbert Highet
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
It's especially hard if the government is not providing services, or is even conducting ethnic cleansing against you. - Paul Harvey
Freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down the fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged. - Alice Walker
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
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 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
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
Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it. - John Adams
Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold you have escaped, not from one master, but from many. - Plato