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Politics makes strange postmasters. - Kin Hubbard

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

You campaign in poetry; you govern in prose. - Mario Cuomo

Talk is cheap... except when Congress does it. - Unknown

Political correctness is tyranny with manners. - Charlton Heston

From politics, it was an easy step to silence. - Jane Austen

Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you. - Ralph Nader

Democracy breeds the germs of its own destruction. - V I Lenin

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit. - Khalil Gibran

Politics is the art of controlling your environment. - Hunter S. Thompson

The Golden Rule has no place in a political campaign. - John J Ingalls

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

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

The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression. - W.E.B. Du Bois

It's so much easier to throw rocks than it is to govern. - Karen Bass

I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together. - Gerald R. Ford

World War II was the last government program that really worked. - George Will

Idealism loses to pragmatism when it comes to winning elections. - Danny Strong

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

Liberty don't work as good in practice as it does in speeches. - Will Rogers

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

The most important political office is that of the private citizen. - Louis D. Brandeis

For every action, there is an equal and opposite government program. - Bob Wells

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

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

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

Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it. - Lao Tzu

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

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

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

The trouble with free elections is, you never know who is going to get in. - Leonid Brezhnev

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. - Aristotle

No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent. - Abraham Lincoln

In a democracy the majority has every right to act as stupid as the minority. - Frank Dane

The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop. - P.J. O'Rourke

The short memories of American voters is what keeps our politicians in office. - Will Rogers

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. - H L Mencken

Democracy is also a form of religion; it is the worship of jackals by jackasses. - H L Mencken

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

Hillary Clinton is not going to be able to create jobs, I will tell you right now. - Donald Trump

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

No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session. - Mark Twain

I am on your Walk of Fame in Toronto. My sense of humour is Canadian. But I can't vote. - Donald Sutherland

What is the first part of politics? Education. The second? Education. And the third? Education. - Jules Michelet

In Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination. - Irving Layton

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

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. - H L Mencken

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

This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer. - Will Rogers

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time. - E.B. White

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

Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds. - Thurgood Marshall

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

One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are. - Cal Thomas

If the government was as afraid of disturbing the consumer as it is of disturbing business, this would be some democracy. - Kin Hubbard

I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other. - Napoleon Bonaparte

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

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

An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry. - George Eliot

We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both. - Louis D. Branders

Being in politics is like being a football coach; you have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important. - Eugene McCarthy

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