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Liberty is the right to silence. - Unknown

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

The gun is not out of Irish politics. - Ian Paisley

An educated people can be easily governed. - Frederick II

You campaign in poetry; you govern in prose. - Mario Cuomo

Every country has the government it deserves. - Joseph de Maistre

From politics, it was an easy step to silence. - Jane Austen

Ideas govern the world or throw it into chaos. - Auguste Comte

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

America is a land where men govern, but women rule. - John M Brown

The Golden Rule has no place in a political campaign. - John J Ingalls

Bulldozing: Going to sleep during a political speech. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

There can be no wise politics without thought beforehand. - Annie Besant

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

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

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

War has rules, mud wrestling has rules - politics has no rules. - Ross Perot

Commitments the voters don’t know about can't hurt you. - Ogden Nash

Democracy! Bah! When I hear that word I reach for my feather Boa. - Allen Ginsberg

Republicans have nothing but bad ideas and Democrats have no ideas. - Lewis Black

Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide issues. - George Will

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

Ultimatum: In diplomacy, a last demand before resorting to concessions - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

We would all like to vote for the best man but he is never a candidate. - Kin Hubbard

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

Democrats haven't been this upset since Republicans freed their slaves. - Unknown

If I wished to punish a province, I would have it governed by philosophers. - Frederick The Great

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

Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame. - Bertrand Russell

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power. - Aldous Huxley

A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader. - Harry S Truman

I love Canada. I am from Canada. I will bash the Canadian government but never Canada. - Jason Priestley

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

By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he's been bought ten times over. - Gore Vidal

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. - George Bernard Shaw

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it. - Mark Twain

Passover affirms the great truth that liberty is the inalienable right of every human being. - Morris Joseph

What is the first part of politics? Education. The second? Education. And the third? Education. - Jules Michelet

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. - George Orwell

Animals are like little children a bit. They're simple. They don't have politics driving them. - Annabelle Sabloff

Ex-Presidents of the United States get state subsidies. Not so in Russia. You get no government support. - Mikhail Gorbachev

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. - H L Mencken

Such is the irresistible nature of truth that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing. - Thomas Paine

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

I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone. - H L Mencken

The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up. - Jay Leno

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

The only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in keeping their money in their own pockets. - Lysander Spooner

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

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

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

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote. - Benjamin Franklin

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

One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President. - Lyndon B. Johnson

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost. - John Quincy Adams

We're at a point in history where everyone needs to pay attention to politics. Too much is at stake for us to be apathetic. - Kevin Costner

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

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

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

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

The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed. - Publilius Syrus

Regarded simply as a politician, and compared with the other leading political figures of our time, how clean a smell he has managed to leave behind. - Mahatma Gandhi