I'm A Frayed Knot

Vote early and vote often. - Al Capone

The gun is not out of Irish politics. - Ian Paisley

Feudalism: It's your Count that votes - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom. - Hannah Arendt

Political correctness is tyranny with manners. - Charlton Heston

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

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

The problem with political jokes is they get elected. - Henry Cate, VII

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

American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense. - Ed Howe

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

There can be no wise politics without thought beforehand. - Annie Besant

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. - George Bernard Shaw

Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows - marriage does. - Groucho Marx

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

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

Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. - Charles de Gaulle

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

You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think. - Milton Berle

Liberty don't work as good in practice as it does in speeches. - Will Rogers

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

We would all like to vote for the best man but he is never a candidate. - Kin Hubbard

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

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

The trouble with free elections is, you never know who is going to get in. - Leonid Brezhnev

To lodge all power in one party and keep it there is to insure bad government. - Mark Twain

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

The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy. - Theodore White

A nation which makes the final sacrifice for life and freedom does not get beaten. - Kemal Ataturk

No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session. - Mark Twain

Children need the freedom and time to play. Play is not a luxury. Play is a necessity. - Kay R. Jamison

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity. - Karl Marx

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

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

If we do not believe in freedom of speech for those we despise, we do not believe in it at all. - Noam Chomsky

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

In Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination. - Irving Layton

Good thing we've still got politics in Texas - finest form of free entertainment ever invented. - Molly Ivins

The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare. - Daniel P Moynihan

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

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.)

Democracy means that anyone can grow up to be president, and anyone who doesn't grow up can be vice president. - Johnny Carson

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

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

A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch, and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it. - Aldous Huxley

Canada's political parties spend a few years in opposition and then govern as if it's permanent payback time. - Bob Rae

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

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

Freedom has many difficulties and democracy is not perfect. But we have never had to put a wall up to keep our people in. - John F Kennedy

Happiness is being content with what you have, living in freedom and liberty, having a good family life and good friends. - Divyanka Tripathi

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

I'm not interested in cutting the feet off my characters or stretching them to make them fit my certain political view. - Margaret Atwood

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

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

In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress. - John Adams

Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other. - Oscar Ameringer

A mere 40 years ago, beach volleyball was just beginning. No bureaucrat would have invented it, and that's what freedom is all about. - Newt Gingrich

Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold you have escaped, not from one master, but from many. - Plato

Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time. - Bertrand Russell

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