A New Era

All politics is local. - Thomas P O'Neil

Liberty, Equality, Fraternity! - Unknown

Politics is an inexact science. - Otto von Bismarck

Liberty is the right to silence. - Unknown

Politics makes strange red-fellows. - Will Rogers

Politics makes strange postmasters. - Kin Hubbard

In politics an absurdity is not a handicap. - Napoleon Bonaparte

Political correctness is tyranny with manners. - Charlton Heston

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

I don't go around signin' no political documentaries. - Archie Bunker

Let the wind blow through your hair while you still have some. - Dave Weinbaum

Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

In politics, madame, you need two things: friends, but above all an enemy. - Brian Mulroney

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

The police force cannot be completely independent of the executive government. - P Chidambaram

Liberty is the right to do what I like; license, the right to do what you like. - Bertrand Russell

A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. - George Bernard Shaw

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

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

Of all the tasks of government, the most basic is to protect its citizens from violence. - John Foster Dulles

Passover affirms the great truth that liberty is the inalienable right of every human being. - Morris Joseph

Whether you're a man or not comes from your heart, not how much hair you have on your head. - Bruce Willis

I slipped at a bus stop; I went one way and my hair went the other. That was the end of my wig. - Tia Carrere

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

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

The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up. - Jay Leno

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

The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning, but without understanding. - Louis D Brandeis

Laundry's easier when you live alone. Fifteen minutes before a date, put 'em on, dry 'em with a hair blower. - Elayne Boosler

Happiness is being content with what you have, living in freedom and liberty, having a good family life and good friends. - Divyanka Tripathi

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

I'm not interested in cutting the feet off my characters or stretching them to make them fit my certain political view. - Margaret Atwood

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

A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life. - John Stuart Mill

As a travel writer I've specialized in gritty, fearful destinations, the kind of places that make a reader's hair stick on end. - Tahir Shah

When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale. - John W. Gardner

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

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

When I was six, I entered a talent contest. I dyed my hair blond, had a chainsaw and pretended I was Eminem. The old folk weren't expecting that. - Nico Mirallegro