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Politics is an inexact science. - Otto von Bismarck

Politics makes strange red-fellows. - Will Rogers

I am not a politician, but a soldier. - Idi Amin

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

A penny saved is a Congressional oversight. - Hal Luyah

Man is not free unless government is limited. - Ronald Reagan

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

All government, of course, is against liberty. - H L Mencken

A government of law is a government of lawyers. - Saying

I never saw anything funnier than Texas politics. - Molly Ivins

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

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

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

A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves. - Bertrand de Jouvenel

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

We have the best government in the world... that money can buy. - Mark Twain

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

An honest politician is one who when he's bought stays bought. - Simon Cameron

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

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

Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor. - Lady Bird Johnson

To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy. - Will Durant

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

I do have a political agenda. It's to have as few regulations as possible. - Dan Quayle

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

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

Being a politician is a poor profession. Being a public servant is a noble one. - Herbert C Hoover

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

My sheer existence is like a political act to a lot of people. It's not to me. - Grimes

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

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

That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves. - Thomas Jefferson

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

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it. - Mark Twain

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

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

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

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

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

If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner. - H L Mencken

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

The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning. - Theodor Adorno

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.)

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

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

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

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

I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress. - Ronald Reagan

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

It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen. - George MacDonald

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

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

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

In Mexico, an air-conditioner is called a "politician" because it makes a lot of noise but doesn't work very well. - Len Deighton

The workers' and peasants' government proposes to all warring peoples... negotiations leading to a just, democratic peace. - Lenin

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

If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep. - Will Rogers

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

Regarded simply as a politician, and compared with the other leading political figures of our time, how clean a smell he has managed to leave behind. - Mahatma Gandhi