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All politics is applesauce. - Will Rogers

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

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

Politics have no relation to morals. - Niccolo Machiavelli

Liberty, once lost, is lost forever. - John Adams

In politics the middle way is none at all. - John Adams

A penny saved is a Congressional oversight. - Hal Luyah

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts. - Henry Brooks Adams

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

The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia. - Otto von Bismarck

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

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under. - H L Mencken

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

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

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

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

To deceive a diplomat speak the truth, he has no experience with it. - Greek Proverb

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

To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy. - Will Durant

Government of the people, by the people, and for the pursuit of happiness. - Archie Bunker

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

In a democracy the majority has every right to act as stupid as the minority. - Frank Dane

Democracy used to be a good thing, but now it has gotten into the wrong hands. - Jesse Helms

When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy. - Charles de Secondat

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

Next to being shot at and missed, nothing is quite so satisfying as an income tax refund. - Unknown

I am on your Walk of Fame in Toronto. My sense of humour is Canadian. But I can't vote. - Donald Sutherland

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

In Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination. - Irving Layton

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

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

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

Taxpayer - someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination. - Ronald Reagan

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

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

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

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

I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle. - Winston Churchill