Without Government

All politics is local. - Thomas P O'Neil

Jazz is democracy in music. - Wynton Marsalis

Good government is good politics. - Richard J. Daley

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

Politics have no relation to morals. - Niccolo Machiavelli

Don't vote; it only encourages them. - Unknown

Information is the currency of democracy. - Unknown

All government, of course, is against liberty. - H L Mencken

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts. - Henry Brooks Adams

Government is an endless pursuit of new ways to tax. - Unknown

A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves. - Bertrand de Jouvenel

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

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

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

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

Either the government will be given to us or we shall seize it by marching on Rome. - Benito Mussolini

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people, by the people, for the people. - Oscar Wilde

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

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

My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight. - John F Kennedy

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

What right does Congress have to go around making laws just because they deem it necessary? - Marion Barry

Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner. - James Bovard

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

Ex-Presidents of the United States get state subsidies. Not so in Russia. You get no government support. - Mikhail Gorbachev

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

Politics: Poli, a Latin word meaning "many"; and tics, meaning "bloodsucking creatures." - Robin Williams

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand. - Milton Friedman

Politics is the only business where doing nothing other than making the other guy look bad is an acceptable outcome. - Mark Warner

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

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

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

We study the glory of God, and the honour and liberty of parliament, for which we fight, without seeking our own interests. - Oliver Cromwell

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

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 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

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

Our ancestors believed in magic, prayers, trickery, browbeating and bullying. I think it would be fair to sum that up as 'Irish politics'. - Flann O'Brien