Mexico Will Pay For The Wall

Jazz is democracy in music. - Wynton Marsalis

Politics is an inexact science. - Otto von Bismarck

Liberty is the right to silence. - Unknown

Man is by nature a political animal. - Aristotle

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

In Congress, it's all pork, all the time. - Jim Cooper

Talk is cheap... except when Congress does it. - Unknown

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

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

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

All diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means. - Zhou Enlai

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

We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy. - Martin L. Gross

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

The new job of art is to sit on the wall and get more expensive. - Robert Hughes

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

Politics is the chloroform of the Irish people, or, rather the hashish. - Oliver St. John Gogarty

Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote. - William E. Simon

To lodge all power in one party and keep it there is to insure bad government. - Mark Twain

No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session. - Mark Twain

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

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

Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity. - Irving Kristol

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

Why pay money to have your family tree traced; go into politics and your opponents will do it for you. - Unknown

There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy. - Fidel Castro

Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you. - Pericles (430 B.C.)

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. - Plato

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

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

One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are. - Cal Thomas

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

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

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

Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other. - Oscar Ameringer

These are stupid people that say, "Oh didn't Trump declare bankruptcy? Didn't he go bankrupt?" I didn't go bankrupt. - Donald Trump

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. - Aristotle

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

Being in politics is like being a football coach; you have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important. - Eugene McCarthy

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