Good Stuff Or Else

Vote early and vote often. - Al Capone

Diplomacy: Lying in state. - Oliver Herford

The bad guys always get a vote. - Navy saying

Politics makes strange red-fellows. - Will Rogers

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

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

An educated people can be easily governed. - Frederick II

To receive a benefit is to sell your liberty. - Laberius

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

Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you. - Ralph Nader

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

The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia. - Otto von Bismarck

I greet you in the name of peace, democracy, and freedom. - Nelson Mandela

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

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

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

Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest thing in the nicest way. - Isaac Goldberg

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

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

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

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

The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world. - Reinhold Niebuhr

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

The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government. - Edward Abbey

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

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

Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it. - Lao Tzu

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

A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue. - Daniel Webster

If I wished to punish a province, I would have it governed by philosophers. - Frederick The Great

The short memories of American voters is what keeps our politicians in office. - Will Rogers

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

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

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power. - Aldous Huxley

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

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

Whenever a fellow tells me he's bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me. - Harry S Truman

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

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

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

Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But then I repeat myself. - Mark Twain

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

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

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

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

Trudeau's contribution was not to build Canada but to destroy it, and I had to come in and save it. - Brian Mulroney

One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government. - Donald Trump

I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone. - H L Mencken

Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism. - Claude McKay

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

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

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

What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those? - Gilbert Highet

The USA demanding that North Korea halt its nuclear program is akin to the fox demanding that the hens open their coup. - Steven Magee

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

Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary. - Reinhold Niebuhr

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

Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. - Ambrose Bierce

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men. - Plato

Every country must be absolutely free to adopt the type of economic, political and social system that it considers convenient. - Fidel Castro

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

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

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