Good Stuff Or Else

Jazz is democracy in music. - Wynton Marsalis

All politics is applesauce. - Will Rogers

Politics is war by other measures. - Steve Bannon

Politics have no relation to morals. - Niccolo Machiavelli

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

Crime does not pay as well as politics. - Alfred E. Newman

Every country has the government it deserves. - Joseph de Maistre

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts. - Henry Brooks Adams

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

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun. - R Buckminster Fuller

If men were angels, no government would be necessary. - James Madison

Bulldozing: Going to sleep during a political speech. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

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

Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party. - Herbert Hoover

I don't go around signin' no political documentaries. - Archie Bunker

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

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

An honest man in politics shines more than he would elsewhere. - Mark Twain

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

There is no distinctly American criminal class - except Congress. - Mark Twain

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

Liberty don't work as good in practice as it does in speeches. - Will Rogers

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

I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat. - Will Rogers

I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent. - Edith Sitwell

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

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

I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. - Will Rogers

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

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

A good politician, under democracy, is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar. - H L Mencken

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

A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. - George Bernard Shaw

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business. - Tom Robbins

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

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people, by the people, for the people. - Oscar Wilde

I love Canada. I am from Canada. I will bash the Canadian government but never Canada. - Jason Priestley

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

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

We go by the major vote, and if the majority are insane, the sane must go to the hospital. - Horace Mann

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

My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight. - John F Kennedy

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

The difference between death and taxes is death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets. - Will Rogers

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

I don't look for much to come out of government ownership as long as we have Democrats and Republicans. - Kin Hubbard

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

The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up. - Jay Leno

Harold MacMillan is a very intelligent man, who, as so often happens in politics, achieved supreme power too late. - Malcolm Muggeridge

Taxpayer - someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination. - Ronald Reagan

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

He is one of those wise philanthropists who, in a time of famine, would vote for nothing but a supply of toothpicks. - Douglas Jerrold

One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are. - Cal Thomas

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote. - Benjamin Franklin

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

An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry. - George Eliot

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

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

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

I once said to my father, when I was a boy, 'Dad we need a third political party.' He said to me, 'I'll settle for a second.' - Ralph Nader

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