Build Back Better - Season 1

Freedom is like oxygen. - Slavomir Rawicz

All politics is applesauce. - Will Rogers

A week is a long time in politics. - Harold Wilson

Politics makes strange postmasters. - Kin Hubbard

Forgetfulness is a form of freedom. - Kahlil Gibran

Television is democracy at its ugliest. - Paddy Chayefsky

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

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

Everybody knows politics is a contact sport. - Barrack Obama

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

Intelligence has nothing to do with politics. - Londo Molari

Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better. - Albert Camus

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit. - Khalil Gibran

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

Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one. - A.J. Liebling

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

You have freedom when you're easy in your harness. - Robert Frost

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

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free. - Dwight D Eisenhower

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

I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death. - Angela Davis

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

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

Once a man has tasted freedom, he will never be content to be a slave. - Walt Disney

Ultimatum: In diplomacy, a last demand before resorting to concessions - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

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

The road to freedom must be uphill, even if it is arduous and frustrating. - Andrew Goodman

In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves. - Bernard Baruch

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes. - Mahatma Gandhi

Diplomacy is the art of saying, "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock. - Will Rogers

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

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem. - J Krishnamurti

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

Freedom rings when you realize you can become what you never thought you could become. - Richie Norton

People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid. - Soren Kierkegaard

At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer. - Marshall Lumsden

Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity. - Irving Kristol

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

I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing. - H L Mencken

A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them. - P.J. O'Rourke

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

The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose. - Thornton Wilder

I can remember when Democrats believed that it was the duty of America to fight for freedom over tyranny. - Zell Miller

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it. - Thomas Paine

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

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

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time. - E.B. White

We don't have inflation because we are living too well. We have it because government is living too well. - Ronald Reagan

The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not. - Thomas Jefferson

Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind. - Virginia Woolf

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

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

When it comes to politics, I sit down on a sofa and grab some popcorn - or sometimes I crouch down in order not to get shot. - Sergey Galitsky

None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free. - Pearl S Buck

The nine most terrifying words in the English language are,
"I'm from the government and I'm here to help." - Ronald Reagan

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

Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. - Ronald Reagan

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

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. - Aristotle

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my country. I make up for lost time when I am at home. - Winston Churchill

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

Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments. - Isaac Asimov