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Jazz is democracy in music. - Wynton Marsalis

The world is governed by opinion. - William E. Channing

There is no gambling like politics. - Benjamin Disraeli

Erection: When Japanese go to vote. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

In politics nothing is contemptible. - Benjamin Disraeli

One cannot govern with "buts." - Charles de Gaulle

Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs. - Isaiah Berlin

Feudalism: It's your Count that votes - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

A penny saved is a Congressional oversight. - Hal Luyah

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts. - Henry Brooks Adams

Politics is just show business for ugly people. - Jay Leno

Most bad government results from too much government. - Thomas Jefferson

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

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

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

Liberty: One of Imagination's most previous possessions. - Ambrose Bierce

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

Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese? - Charles de Gaulle

World War II was the last government program that really worked. - George Will

Commitments the voters don’t know about can't hurt you. - Ogden Nash

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

It's a terrible shame that politics has become show business. - Sydney Pollack

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

Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least. - Robert Byrne

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

Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure. - Bertrand Russell

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

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

Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it. - Laurence J Peter

The election is not very far off when a candidate can recognize you across the street. - Kin Hubbard

When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy. - Charles de Secondat

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

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

We could certainly slow the aging process down if it had to work its way through Congress. - Will Rogers

There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you. - Will Rogers

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

Officialese: A government language where you can understand the words, but not the sentences - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

I have a wonderful make-up crew. They're the same people restoring the Statue of Liberty. - Bob Hope

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

The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare. - Daniel P Moynihan

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

Politics, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong. - Richard Armour

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

The man who can make others laugh secures more votes for a measure than the man who forces them to think. - Malcolm de Chazal

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

The largest party in America is neither the Democrats nor the Republicans. It's the party of non-voters. - Robert Reich

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand. - Milton Friedman

Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you. - Pericles (430 B.C.)

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

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

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

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy. - Groucho Marx

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

The most dangerous person of the world is a member of the United States Congress just home from a three-day fact-finding trip. - Johnny Isakson

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost. - John Quincy Adams

We're at a point in history where everyone needs to pay attention to politics. Too much is at stake for us to be apathetic. - Kevin Costner

In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress. - John Adams

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

Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people. - Joe Biden

In a world of complex threats, our security and leadership depends on all elements of our power - including strong and principled diplomacy. - Barack Obama