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Good government is good politics. - Richard J. Daley

Politics is war by other measures. - Steve Bannon

Politics is the art of the possible. - Otto von Bismarck

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

Political correctness is tyranny with manners. - Charlton Heston

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business. - Winston Churchill

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun. - R Buckminster Fuller

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

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

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

Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. - Charles de Gaulle

The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world. - Reinhold Niebuhr

I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent. - Edith Sitwell

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

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

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

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

Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it. - Laurence J Peter

Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism. - Bill Moyers

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

That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves. - Thomas Jefferson

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

Good thing we've still got politics in Texas - finest form of free entertainment ever invented. - Molly Ivins

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. - John Kenneth Galbraith

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

The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning. - Theodor Adorno

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.)

The only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in keeping their money in their own pockets. - Lysander Spooner

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

Harold MacMillan is a very intelligent man, who, as so often happens in politics, achieved supreme power too late. - Malcolm Muggeridge

I have certain rules I live by. My first rule: I don't believe anything the government tells me. Nothing. Zero. - George Carlin

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

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy. - Groucho Marx

When it comes to politics, I sit down on a sofa and grab some popcorn - or sometimes I crouch down in order not to get shot. - Sergey Galitsky

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

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

Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. - Ronald Reagan

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