Biden in the Oval Office

Vote early and vote often. - Al Capone

Diplomacy: Lying in state. - Oliver Herford

Take it from me - elections matter. - Al Gore

Politics makes strange red-fellows. - Will Rogers

In politics nothing is contemptible. - Benjamin Disraeli

How is it possible to have a civil war? - George Carlin

Ideas govern the world or throw it into chaos. - Auguste Comte

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

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

I love a dog. He does nothing for political reasons. - Will Rogers

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

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

Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity. - Albert Einstein

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

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

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

You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think. - Milton Berle

Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy. - Sir Peter Ustinov

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

In politics, madame, you need two things: friends, but above all an enemy. - Brian Mulroney

Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing. - Bernard Baruch

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

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

The police force cannot be completely independent of the executive government. - P Chidambaram

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

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

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

The fastest way for a politician to become an elder statesman is to lose an election. - Earl Wilson

Everyone wants to eat at the government's table, but nobody wants to do the dishes. - Werner Finck

In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man; if you want anything done, ask a woman. - Margaret Thatcher

To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy. - Bertrand Russell

Passover affirms the great truth that liberty is the inalienable right of every human being. - Morris Joseph

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

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

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

I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing. - H L Mencken

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

This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer. - Will Rogers

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

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. - Frederic Bastiat

When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves. - George Pataki

Politics: Poli, a Latin word meaning "many"; and tics, meaning "bloodsucking creatures." - Robin Williams

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

The only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in keeping their money in their own pockets. - Lysander Spooner

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

Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds. - Thurgood Marshall

Love, like democracy, can survive almost any attack - except neglect, indifference and maybe an arrow in the back. - Unknown

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

There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism. - Alexander Hamilton

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

Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. - Benjamin Franklin

The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning, but without understanding. - Louis D Brandeis

Very few of these panic-mongers have any personal knowledge of the countries that are already under blackshirt government. - Lord Rothermere

It would be nice to spend billions on schools and roads, but right now that money is desperately needed for political ads. - Andy Borowitz

We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both. - Louis D. Branders

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other. - Voltaire

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

Be known for pleasing others, espcecially if you govern them... Ruling others has one advantage: you can do more good than anyone else. - Baltasar Gracian

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. - Aristotle

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