Concession Speech

All politics is local. - Thomas P O'Neil

Liberty, Equality, Fraternity! - Unknown

Politics is war by other measures. - Steve Bannon

There is no gambling like politics. - Benjamin Disraeli

Erection: When Japanese go to vote. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

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

Discretion in speech is more than eloquence. - Francis Bacon

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

To receive a benefit is to sell your liberty. - Laberius

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

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

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence. - Xenocrates

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

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

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance. - Robert Frost

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

All people are born alike - except Republicans and Democrats. - Groucho Marx

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

How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese? - Charles de Gaulle

The Republicans aren't the only ones who want four more years. - Unknown

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

Passion and prejudice govern the world, only under the name of reason. - John Wesley

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

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

Every woman dreams of her own political career and her own place in life. - Raisa M. Gorbachev

No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent. - Abraham Lincoln

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

American Politics: A form of socialism for the rich, including the politicians. - Gregory Nunn

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. - Thomas Carlyle

If I don't get along with Democrats, I'm sort of, like, out of business. - Donald Trump

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

A filmmaker we almost lost to politics... my friend and colleague, Warren Beatty. - Jack Nicholson

If you cannot understand me in my speech, how can you understand me in my silence? - Ravi Zacharias

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

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

Speak when you're angry and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret. - L.J. Peter

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

I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death. - Patrick Henry

I think it's an absolute disaster that Australia, the government, allowed kangaroo culling. - Steve Irwin

Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to. - Unknown

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

It's our experience that political leaders don't always mean the opposite of what they say. - Abba Eban

Democracy is very different in U.S. and A. from Kazakhstan. In America, woman can vote, but horse cannot! - Borat Sagdiyev

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

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

Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds. - John P Barlow

Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism. - Claude McKay

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

To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker. - Frederick Douglass

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

Harold MacMillan is a very intelligent man, who, as so often happens in politics, achieved supreme power too late. - Malcolm Muggeridge

Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless. - Milton Friedman

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

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

The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not. - Thomas Jefferson

A democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates. - Gore Vidal

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

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

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

Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. - Ambrose Bierce

In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican. - H L Mencken

I am quite sure now that often in matters concerning religion and politics, a man's reasoning powers are not above the monkeys. - Mark Twain

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

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