Cross Border Friends

Old friends are best. - John Selden

All politics is local. - Thomas P O'Neil

All politics is applesauce. - Will Rogers

Good government is good politics. - Richard J. Daley

Politics makes strange red-fellows. - Will Rogers

There is no gambling like politics. - Benjamin Disraeli

Feudalism: It's your Count that votes - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

A government of law is a government of lawyers. - Saying

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

Self-government won't work without self-discipline. - Paul Harvey

Friends help you move. Real friends help you move bodies. - Milton Berle

I greet you in the name of peace, democracy, and freedom. - Nelson Mandela

I have friends struggling with autism, juvenile diabetes. - Nicole A. Parker

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

You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends. - Joseph Conrad

America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests. - Henry Kissinger

Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty. - Sicilian Proverb

It's the friends you can call up at 4:00 a.m. that matter. - Marlene Dietrich

Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness. - Euripides

God gave us our relatives; thank God we can choose our friends. - Ethel Mumford

We have the best government in the world... that money can buy. - Mark Twain

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

Democracy! Bah! When I hear that word I reach for my feather Boa. - Allen Ginsberg

Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least. - Robert Byrne

We would all like to vote for the best man but he is never a candidate. - Kin Hubbard

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

Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote. - William E. Simon

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

Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light. - Jennie Jerome Churchill

American Politics: A form of socialism for the rich, including the politicians. - Gregory Nunn

To be safe at the expense of the liberty of other people is a difficult equation. - Madeleine Albright

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

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business. - Tom Robbins

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

Advice from your friends is like the weather, some of it is good, some of it is bad. - Unknown

I love Canada. I am from Canada. I will bash the Canadian government but never Canada. - Jason Priestley

I learned a long time ago in Hollywood that the only person I should vote for is myself. - Jack Nicholson

In times of prosperity friends will be plenty;
In time of adversity not one in twenty. - English Proverb

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. - Robert Frost

There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you. - Will Rogers

Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude. - Dale Carnegie

There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die: their silence. - Ben Hecht

A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have. - Thomas Jefferson

Folks who don't know why America is the Land of Promise should be here during an election campaign. - Milton Berle

The man who can make others laugh secures more votes for a measure than the man who forces them to think. - Malcolm de Chazal

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. - Frederic Bastiat

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. - Plato

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own. - Charlotte Bronte

Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless. - Milton Friedman

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

Frankly, I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry. - Joseph Heller

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

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

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

I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress. - Ronald Reagan

One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President. - Lyndon B. Johnson

Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. - Ambrose Bierce

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

The Obama representatives like Robert Gibbs attack people viciously, but people like me will not be silent and will answer them back. - Donald Trump

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task. - Diogenes

People share, read and generally engage more with any type of content when it's surfaced through friends and people they know and trust. - Malorie Lucich

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

The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed. - Publilius Syrus

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