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Politics is an inexact science. - Otto von Bismarck

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

Politics makes strange red-fellows. - Will Rogers

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

Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs. - Isaiah Berlin

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

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

Most bad government results from too much government. - Thomas Jefferson

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

I greet you in the name of peace, democracy, and freedom. - Nelson Mandela

Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity. - Albert Einstein

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

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

Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest thing in the nicest way. - Isaac Goldberg

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

Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week. - Will Rogers

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

I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. - Will Rogers

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

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

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

Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it. - Laurence J Peter

Tact is like a girdle. It enables you to organize the awkward truth more attractively. - Unknown

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

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

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

Americans should not go abroad to slay dragons they do not understand in the name of spreading democracy. - John Quincy Adams

At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else. - Shirley Chisholm

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

There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism. - Alexander Hamilton

In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate. - Charles de Gaulle

Canada's political parties spend a few years in opposition and then govern as if it's permanent payback time. - Bob Rae

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

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

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 nine most terrifying words in the English language are,
"I'm from the government and I'm here to help." - Ronald Reagan

A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election. - Bill Vaughan

I am quite sure now that often in matters concerning religion and politics, a man's reasoning powers are not above the monkeys. - Mark Twain

Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. - Ronald Reagan