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Jazz is democracy in music. - Wynton Marsalis

Liberty, Equality, Fraternity! - Unknown

The bad guys always get a vote. - Navy saying

Politics makes strange red-fellows. - Will Rogers

There is no gambling like politics. - Benjamin Disraeli

No taxation without representation. - Unknown

Politics is the art of the possible. - Otto von Bismarck

Television is democracy at its ugliest. - Paddy Chayefsky

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

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

In politics an absurdity is not a handicap. - Napoleon Bonaparte

Liberty consists in doing what one desires. - John Stuart Mill

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

The power to tax involves the power to destroy. - John Marshall

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

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business. - Winston Churchill

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

Politics is the art of controlling your environment. - Hunter S. Thompson

Every time somebody gets the Ebola virus, it mutates. - Glenn Beck

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

All diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means. - Zhou Enlai

Self-government won't work without self-discipline. - Paul Harvey

Political War: One in which everyone shoots from the lip - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time. - Maya Angelou

I think of lotteries as a tax on the mathematically challenged. - Roger Jones

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

Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide issues. - George Will

The most important political office is that of the private citizen. - Louis D. Brandeis

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

Men are governed only by serving them; the rule is without exception. - V. Cousin

Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed. - Mao Zedong

The avoidance of taxes is the only pursuit that still carries any reward. - John Maynard Keynes

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

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

No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent. - Abraham Lincoln

Democracy used to be a good thing, but now it has gotten into the wrong hands. - Jesse Helms

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

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

Personally, I'm against political jokes. Too often they get elected to office. - Henny Youngman

Either the government will be given to us or we shall seize it by marching on Rome. - Benito Mussolini

Taxes are the dues that we pay for the privilege of membership in an organized society. - Franklin D Roosevelt

I learned a long time ago in Hollywood that the only person I should vote for is myself. - Jack Nicholson

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

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

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. - Winston Churchill

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

I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government. - Woody Allen

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

What right does Congress have to go around making laws just because they deem it necessary? - Marion Barry

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

Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it. - Tom Robbins

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

Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner. - James Bovard

What is the first part of politics? Education. The second? Education. And the third? Education. - Jules Michelet

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

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

It's our experience that political leaders don't always mean the opposite of what they say. - Abba Eban

There is one difference between a tax collector and a taxidermist - the taxidermist leaves the hide. - Mortimer Caplan

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

I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast. - Viktor Frankl

The concept that vaccine-induced immunity is superior in any way to natural immunity is sheer nonsense. - Dr Steven Pelech

Ex-Presidents of the United States get state subsidies. Not so in Russia. You get no government support. - Mikhail Gorbachev

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. - H L Mencken

Such is the irresistible nature of truth that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing. - Thomas Paine

A diplomat is someone who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you will look forward to the trip. - Caskie Stinnett

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

At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else. - Shirley Chisholm

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

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

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

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

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

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

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend. - Thomas Jefferson

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

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

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

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

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

Indoors or out, no one relaxes in March, that month of wind and taxes;
The wind will presently disappear, the taxes last us all the year. - Ogden Nash

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

Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the Government take care of him, better take a closer look at the American Indian. - Henry Ford

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