We're Not Gonna Take It

All politics is local. - Thomas P O'Neil

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

There is no gambling like politics. - Benjamin Disraeli

Forgetfulness is a form of freedom. - Kahlil Gibran

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

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

From politics, it was an easy step to silence. - Jane Austen

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

War has rules, mud wrestling has rules - politics has no rules. - Ross Perot

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

For every action, there is an equal and opposite government program. - Bob Wells

Passion and prejudice govern the world, only under the name of reason. - John Wesley

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

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

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

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

We could certainly slow the aging process down if it had to work its way through Congress. - Will Rogers

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. - Robert Frost

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

Passover affirms the great truth that liberty is the inalienable right of every human being. - Morris Joseph

Freedom, privileges, options, must constantly be exercised, even at the risk of inconvenience. - Jack Vance

There is freedom in forgiveness, and it's not that hard to do once you get into the habit. - Dana Perino

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

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

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one. - Thomas Paine

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

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

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

Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism. - Claude McKay

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

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. - Plato

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

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

Politics is the only business where doing nothing other than making the other guy look bad is an acceptable outcome. - Mark Warner

Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. - Benjamin Franklin

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

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

Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. - Ambrose Bierce

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

We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both. - Louis D. Branders

I am quite sure now that often in matters concerning religion and politics, a man's reasoning powers are not above the monkeys. - Mark Twain

We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought. - Bertrand Russell

Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people. - Joe Biden

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

Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it. - John Adams

There is nothing more majestic than the determined courage of individuals willing to suffer and sacrifice for their freedom and dignity. - Martin Luther King Jr

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

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

The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed. - Publilius Syrus

In politics, as in womanizing, failure is decisive. It sheds its retrospective gloom on earlier endeavor which at the time seemed full of promise. - Malcolm Muggeridge

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