QuotaBillsThere is no gambling like politics. - Benjamin Disraeli
The gun is not out of Irish politics. - Ian Paisley
Everybody knows politics is a contact sport. - Barrack Obama
Talk is cheap... except when Congress does it. - Unknown
Practical politics consists in ignoring facts. - Henry Brooks Adams
I never vote for anyone; I always vote against. - WC Fields
Too much freedom can lead to the soul's decay. - Prince
Politics is the art of controlling your environment. - Hunter S. Thompson
If men were angels, no government would be necessary. - James Madison
The art of government is the organization of idolatry. - George Bernard Shaw
All diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means. - Zhou Enlai
The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression. - W.E.B. Du Bois
I greet you in the name of peace, democracy, and freedom. - Nelson Mandela
Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party. - Herbert Hoover
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. - George Bernard Shaw
I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Liberty: One of Imagination's most previous possessions. - Ambrose Bierce
We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy. - Martin L. Gross
There is no such thing as part freedom: it is all or nothing. - Nelson Mandela
Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. - Charles de Gaulle
Liberty don't work as good in practice as it does in speeches. - Will Rogers
Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week. - Will Rogers
To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy. - Will Durant
Politics is the chloroform of the Irish people, or, rather the hashish. - Oliver St. John Gogarty
I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. - Will Rogers
Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will. - Mikhail Bakunin
The road to freedom must be uphill, even if it is arduous and frustrating. - Andrew Goodman
In a democracy the majority has every right to act as stupid as the minority. - Frank Dane
Freedom of the press is useless when people do not understand what they read. - Gerald F Lieberman
The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop. - P.J. O'Rourke
The police force cannot be completely independent of the executive government. - P Chidambaram
The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy. - Theodore White
North of the 49th parallel we value equality; south of it, they treasure freedom. - Michael Adams
Personally, I'm against political jokes. Too often they get elected to office. - Henny Youngman
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. - Winston Churchill
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. - George Bernard Shaw
There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you. - Will Rogers
He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career. - George Bernard Shaw
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
The man who can make others laugh secures more votes for a measure than the man who forces them to think. - Malcolm de Chazal
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer. - Will Rogers
There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy. - Fidel Castro
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
Harold MacMillan is a very intelligent man, who, as so often happens in politics, achieved supreme power too late. - Malcolm Muggeridge
In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate. - Charles de Gaulle
The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning, but without understanding. - Louis D Brandeis
Of course God knew what would happen if they used their freedom the wrong way: apparently, He thought it worth the risk. - C S Lewis
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
Happiness is being content with what you have, living in freedom and liberty, having a good family life and good friends. - Divyanka Tripathi
Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary. - Reinhold Niebuhr
Freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down the fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged. - Alice Walker
I'm not interested in cutting the feet off my characters or stretching them to make them fit my certain political view. - Margaret Atwood
When it comes to politics, I sit down on a sofa and grab some popcorn - or sometimes I crouch down in order not to get shot. - Sergey Galitsky
Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. - Ambrose Bierce
It was revealed in a government survey published today that the Prime Minister is doing the work of two men, Laurel and Hardy. - Ronnie Corbett
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
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
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
I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters, okay? It's, like, incredible. - Donald Trump
I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own. - Margaret Atwood
We have believed - and we do believe now - that freedom is indivisible, that peace is indivisible, that economic prosperity is indivisible. - Indira Gandhi
Our ancestors believed in magic, prayers, trickery, browbeating and bullying. I think it would be fair to sum that up as 'Irish politics'. - Flann O'Brien