Fine Mess

Diplomacy: Lying in state. - Oliver Herford

Politics is an inexact science. - Otto von Bismarck

Liberty is the right to silence. - Unknown

Politics makes strange red-fellows. - Will Rogers

Man is by nature a political animal. - Aristotle

Information is the currency of democracy. - Unknown

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

A penny saved is a Congressional oversight. - Hal Luyah

I never vote for anyone; I always vote against. - WC Fields

If men were angels, no government would be necessary. - James Madison

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory. - John Kenneth Galbraith

Political War: One in which everyone shoots from the lip - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote. - George Jean Nathan

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

You can't get rich in politics unless you're a crook. - Harry S Truman

Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it. - Sam Kinison

There is no distinctly American criminal class - except Congress. - Mark Twain

You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think. - Milton Berle

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

A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue. - Daniel Webster

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

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

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

When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves. - George Pataki

The largest party in America is neither the Democrats nor the Republicans. It's the party of non-voters. - Robert Reich

They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men. - Clare Boothe Luce

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

Love, like democracy, can survive almost any attack - except neglect, indifference and maybe an arrow in the back. - Unknown

He is one of those wise philanthropists who, in a time of famine, would vote for nothing but a supply of toothpicks. - Douglas Jerrold

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

Very few of these panic-mongers have any personal knowledge of the countries that are already under blackshirt government. - Lord Rothermere

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

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

We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both. - Louis D. Branders

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

Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people. - Joe Biden

I was named the Class Clown in the high school yearbook, so I was always turning to comedy and laughter to heal and to get me through things. - Guillermo Diaz

If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep. - Will Rogers

There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy. - Mark Twain

Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments. - Isaac Asimov