Not A Good Start

Freedom is like oxygen. - Slavomir Rawicz

A week is a long time in politics. - Harold Wilson

Politics makes strange postmasters. - Kin Hubbard

Man is by nature a political animal. - Aristotle

The gun is not out of Irish politics. - Ian Paisley

Every country has the government it deserves. - Joseph de Maistre

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom. - Hannah Arendt

Politics is just show business for ugly people. - Jay Leno

I never saw anything funnier than Texas politics. - Molly Ivins

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

Guns have only two enemies - rust and politicians. - Unknown

I love a dog. He does nothing for political reasons. - Will Rogers

Bulldozing: Going to sleep during a political speech. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Politicians can't manage. All they can do is talk. - Donald Trump

What this country needs are more unemployed politicians. - Edward Langley

We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home. - Edward R. Murrow

Nothing is more important than independence and freedom. - Ho Chi Minh

Political War: One in which everyone shoots from the lip - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

There can be no wise politics without thought beforehand. - Annie Besant

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

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

You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think. - Milton Berle

It's a terrible shame that politics has become show business. - Sydney Pollack

An honest politician is one who when he's bought stays bought. - Simon Cameron

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

Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed. - Mao Zedong

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

Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing. - Bernard Baruch

In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is freedom, in water there is bacteria. - Ben Franklin

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation. - Henry Kissinger

No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power. - Jacob Bronowski

Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower. - Hans Christian Andersen

North of the 49th parallel we value equality; south of it, they treasure freedom. - Michael Adams

There are no crooked politicians in America. They've legalized their thievery. - Frank Dane

The fastest way for a politician to become an elder statesman is to lose an election. - Earl Wilson

Freedom rings when you realize you can become what you never thought you could become. - Richie Norton

Everyone wants to eat at the government's table, but nobody wants to do the dishes. - Werner Finck

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

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it. - Mark Twain

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

There is freedom in forgiveness, and it's not that hard to do once you get into the habit. - Dana Perino

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

The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare. - Daniel P Moynihan

Get thee glass eyes;
And, like a scurvy politician, seem
To see the things thou dost not. - William Shakespeare

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

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

When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power. - Maggie Gallagher

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

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

In America you can go on the air and kid the politicians,
and the politicians can go on the air and kid the people. - Groucho Marx

Freedom has many difficulties and democracy is not perfect. But we have never had to put a wall up to keep our people in. - John F Kennedy

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

The most dangerous person of the world is a member of the United States Congress just home from a three-day fact-finding trip. - Johnny Isakson

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility. - Sigmund Freud

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

Papers say: 'Congress is deadlocked and can't act.' I think that is the greatest blessing that could befall this country. - Will Rogers

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

I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own. - Margaret Atwood

A mere 40 years ago, beach volleyball was just beginning. No bureaucrat would have invented it, and that's what freedom is all about. - Newt Gingrich

In a world of complex threats, our security and leadership depends on all elements of our power - including strong and principled diplomacy. - Barack Obama

The politicians in Washington are spending trillions of dollars of our money. When are Americans going to stand up and say enough is enough? - Joe Wurzelbacher

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

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