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Crime does not pay as well as politics. - Alfred E. Newman

One cannot govern with "buts." - Charles de Gaulle

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

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

Liberty consists in doing what one desires. - John Stuart Mill

Everybody knows politics is a contact sport. - Barrack Obama

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

Liberty is never being too sure you're right. - Learned Hand

Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you. - Ralph Nader

Democracy breeds the germs of its own destruction. - V I Lenin

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun. - R Buckminster Fuller

Government is an endless pursuit of new ways to tax. - Unknown

The problem with political jokes is they get elected. - Henry Cate, VII

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

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

It's so much easier to throw rocks than it is to govern. - Karen Bass

A diplomat is a man who thinks twice before he says nothing. - Unknown

Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. - Charles de Gaulle

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

The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world. - Reinhold Niebuhr

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

Men are governed only by serving them; the rule is without exception. - V. Cousin

Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed. - Mao Zedong

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

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

In politics, madame, you need two things: friends, but above all an enemy. - Brian Mulroney

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

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

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

The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy. - Theodore White

Diplomacy is the art of saying, "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock. - Will Rogers

My sheer existence is like a political act to a lot of people. It's not to me. - Grimes

Personally, I'm against political jokes. Too often they get elected to office. - Henny Youngman

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

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

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

The election is not very far off when a candidate can recognize you across the street. - Kin Hubbard

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

Everyone wants to eat at the government's table, but nobody wants to do the dishes. - Werner Finck

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

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

Govern thy life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one, and read the other. - Thomas Fuller

I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government. - Woody Allen

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. - Robert Frost

Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it. - Tom Robbins

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

In a democracy, the one thing that cannot be done is to destroy its trust, its hope, its idealism. - Teresa Heinz

A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them. - P.J. O'Rourke

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

I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast. - Viktor Frankl

The irony of the matter is that the future generations do not have a vote. In effect, we hold their proxy. - Charles J Hitch

One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government. - Donald Trump

Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. - Benjamin Franklin

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

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

I'm not interested in cutting the feet off my characters or stretching them to make them fit my certain political view. - Margaret Atwood

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

An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry. - George Eliot

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

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

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

In a world of complex threats, our security and leadership depends on all elements of our power - including strong and principled diplomacy. - Barack Obama

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my country. I make up for lost time when I am at home. - Winston Churchill