Biden in the Oval Office

Vote early and vote often. - Al Capone

Jazz is democracy in music. - Wynton Marsalis

Take it from me - elections matter. - Al Gore

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

An educated people can be easily governed. - Frederick II

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

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

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

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

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

I never vote for anyone; I always vote against. - WC Fields

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business. - Winston Churchill

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit. - Khalil Gibran

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

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

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

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

Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets. - Ronald Reagan

Government cannot and must not replace private initiative. - Kim Campbell

In politics, a lie unanswered becomes truth within 24 hours. - Willie Brown

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

Idealism loses to pragmatism when it comes to winning elections. - Danny Strong

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office. - Thomas Jefferson

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

Politics is a profession where the paths of glory lead but to the gravy. - Billy Boy Franklin

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

Government of the people, by the people, and for the pursuit of happiness. - Archie Bunker

No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power. - Jacob Bronowski

The only thing we learn from new elections is we learned nothing from the old. - American Proverb

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

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

Democracy is also a form of religion; it is the worship of jackals by jackasses. - H L Mencken

Either the government will be given to us or we shall seize it by marching on Rome. - Benito Mussolini

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

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

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

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

Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude. - Dale Carnegie

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

I must study politics and war that my sons may have the liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. - John Adams

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

Why pay money to have your family tree traced; go into politics and your opponents will do it for you. - Unknown

Animals are like little children a bit. They're simple. They don't have politics driving them. - Annabelle Sabloff

Ex-Presidents of the United States get state subsidies. Not so in Russia. You get no government support. - Mikhail Gorbachev

Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave. - Henry Brougham

Such is the irresistible nature of truth that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing. - Thomas Paine

When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power. - Maggie Gallagher

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. - John Kenneth Galbraith

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

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

I have certain rules I live by. My first rule: I don't believe anything the government tells me. Nothing. Zero. - George Carlin

In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate. - Charles de Gaulle

It's especially hard if the government is not providing services, or is even conducting ethnic cleansing against you. - Paul Harvey

If the government was as afraid of disturbing the consumer as it is of disturbing business, this would be some democracy. - Kin Hubbard

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

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

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

When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale. - John W. Gardner

The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed. - Publilius Syrus

Being in politics is like being a football coach; you have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important. - Eugene McCarthy