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Politics makes strange red-fellows. - Will Rogers

There is no gambling like politics. - Benjamin Disraeli

Politics have no relation to morals. - Niccolo Machiavelli

Everybody knows politics is a contact sport. - Barrack Obama

Man is not free unless government is limited. - Ronald Reagan

Intelligence has nothing to do with politics. - Londo Molari

If men were angels, no government would be necessary. - James Madison

Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets. - Ronald Reagan

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

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

You can't get rich in politics unless you're a crook. - Harry S Truman

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

War has rules, mud wrestling has rules - politics has no rules. - Ross Perot

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

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

Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for. - Will Rogers

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

A filmmaker we almost lost to politics... my friend and colleague, Warren Beatty. - Jack Nicholson

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

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

Officialese: A government language where you can understand the words, but not the sentences - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

I must study politics and war that my sons may have the liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. - John Adams

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

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

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

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

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.)

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

Politics is the only business where doing nothing other than making the other guy look bad is an acceptable outcome. - Mark Warner

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

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

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

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. - Aristotle

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

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

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

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