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Politics is an inexact science. - Otto von Bismarck

The bad guys always get a vote. - Navy saying

Good government is good politics. - Richard J. Daley

Take it from me - elections matter. - Al Gore

Don't vote; it only encourages them. - Unknown

Voters want a fraud they can believe in. - Will Durst

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

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

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

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts. - Henry Brooks Adams

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

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

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

American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense. - Ed Howe

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

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

We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home. - Edward R. Murrow

The patriot's blood is the seed of Freedom's tree. - Thomas Campbell

The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism. - Wole Soyinka

It's so much easier to throw rocks than it is to govern. - Karen Bass

In politics, a lie unanswered becomes truth within 24 hours. - Willie Brown

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under. - H L Mencken

There is no such thing as part freedom: it is all or nothing. - Nelson Mandela

A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top. - James Reston

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

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

University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. - Henry Kissinger

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

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

Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. - John Kenneth Galbraith

The police force cannot be completely independent of the executive government. - P Chidambaram

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. - H L Mencken

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business. - Tom Robbins

The secret of political bargaining is to look more strong than what you really are. - Subhash Bose

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

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

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

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

Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires. - Bertrand Russell

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

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. - George Orwell

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

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

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

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

Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave. - Henry Brougham

Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have elections is to find out if the polls were right? - Robert Orben

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

I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses. - Victor Hugo

Loving someone is a loss of freedom - but one doesn't think of it as loss because one gains so much else. - Erica Jong

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

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.)

Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds. - Thurgood Marshall

Taxpayer - someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination. - Ronald Reagan

He is one of those wise philanthropists who, in a time of famine, would vote for nothing but a supply of toothpicks. - Douglas Jerrold

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

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

A democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates. - Gore Vidal

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

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

One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President. - Lyndon B. Johnson

Men want the same thing from their underwear that they want from women: a little bit of support, and a little bit of freedom. - Jerry Seinfeld

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

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