Socialist Job

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

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

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

In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith. - J. William Fulbright

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together. - Gerald R. Ford

The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level. - Norman Mailer

Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves. - Dale Carnegie

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

Most of the early part of an actor's career, you do the jobs you get. - Jack Nicholson

University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. - Henry Kissinger

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. - Aristotle

Government can't give us anything without depriving us of something else. - Henry Hazlitt

In a democracy the majority has every right to act as stupid as the minority. - Frank Dane

Liberty is the right to do what I like; license, the right to do what you like. - Bertrand Russell

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

To be safe at the expense of the liberty of other people is a difficult equation. - Madeleine Albright

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

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

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. - Winston Churchill

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. - Thomas Jefferson

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

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

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

Democracy means that anyone can grow up to be president, and anyone who doesn't grow up can be vice president. - Johnny Carson

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

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book. - Ronald Reagan

Every country must be absolutely free to adopt the type of economic, political and social system that it considers convenient. - Fidel Castro

The nine most terrifying words in the English language are,
"I'm from the government and I'm here to help." - Ronald Reagan

Papers say: 'Congress is deadlocked and can't act.' I think that is the greatest blessing that could befall this country. - Will Rogers

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

A leader is not an administrator who loves to run others, but someone who carries water for his people, so that they can get on with their jobs. - Robert Townsend

In politics, as in womanizing, failure is decisive. It sheds its retrospective gloom on earlier endeavor which at the time seemed full of promise. - Malcolm Muggeridge

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