Without Government

Politics makes strange red-fellows. - Will Rogers

Television is democracy at its ugliest. - Paddy Chayefsky

Everybody knows politics is a contact sport. - Barrack Obama

Man is not free unless government is limited. - Ronald Reagan

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

The art of government is the organization of idolatry. - George Bernard Shaw

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance. - Robert Frost

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

Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows - marriage does. - Groucho Marx

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

An honest man in politics shines more than he would elsewhere. - Mark Twain

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

I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat. - Will Rogers

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

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

University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. - Henry Kissinger

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

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

Personally, I'm against political jokes. Too often they get elected to office. - Henny Youngman

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

Whenever a fellow tells me he's bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me. - Harry S Truman

I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death. - Patrick Henry

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

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

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

Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But then I repeat myself. - Mark Twain

He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career. - George Bernard Shaw

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

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

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

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

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

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

What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those? - Gilbert Highet

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

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

It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen. - George MacDonald

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

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