Concession Speech

All politics is local. - Thomas P O'Neil

Diplomacy: Lying in state. - Oliver Herford

Jazz is democracy in music. - Wynton Marsalis

Silence is safer than speech. - Epictetus

There is no gambling like politics. - Benjamin Disraeli

Politics is the art of the possible. - Otto von Bismarck

Speech is silver; silence is golden. - Thomas Carlyle

Liberty, once lost, is lost forever. - John Adams

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

Information is the currency of democracy. - Unknown

An educated people can be easily governed. - Frederick II

Tears at times have all the weight of speech. - Ovid

Intelligence has nothing to do with politics. - Londo Molari

Political correctness is tyranny with manners. - Charlton Heston

The human race is governed by its imagination. - Napoleon Bonaparte

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

For every action, there is an equal and opposite government program. - Bob Wells

Republicans will do anything for the poor except get off their backs. - American Proverb

Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least. - Robert Byrne

Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together. - Max Eastman

It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. - Mark Twain

Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for. - Will Rogers

Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will. - Mikhail Bakunin

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

Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. - John Kenneth Galbraith

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

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

Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated. - Will Rogers

Of all the tasks of government, the most basic is to protect its citizens from violence. - John Foster Dulles

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. - P.J. O'Rourke

That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves. - Thomas Jefferson

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

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

Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner. - James Bovard

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

So, if we lie to the government, it's a felony.
But if they lie to us, it's politics. - Bill Murray

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

My love life is terrible. The last time I was inside a woman was when I visited the Statue of Liberty. - Woody Allen

A diplomat is someone who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you will look forward to the trip. - Caskie Stinnett

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

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

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

Frankly, I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry. - Joseph Heller

Canada's political parties spend a few years in opposition and then govern as if it's permanent payback time. - Bob Rae

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

Freedom has many difficulties and democracy is not perfect. But we have never had to put a wall up to keep our people in. - John F Kennedy

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

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

Charity, good behaviour, amiable speech, unselfishness - these by the chief sage have been declared the elements of popularity. - Burmese Proverb

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 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

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

Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the Government take care of him, better take a closer look at the American Indian. - Henry Ford

No matter how bad things are, they can always be worse. So what if my stroke left me with a speech impediment? Moses had one, and he did all right. - Kirk Douglas