Ostracism

Trojan Horse: A phony pony - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Politics makes strange red-fellows. - Will Rogers

Politics makes strange postmasters. - Kin Hubbard

Politics have no relation to morals. - Niccolo Machiavelli

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

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

A government of law is a government of lawyers. - Saying

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

Government is an endless pursuit of new ways to tax. - Unknown

I'm not a politician. I've only got one face. - Brendan Behan

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

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

If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom. - Robert Frost

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

We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy. - Martin L. Gross

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

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

The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world. - Reinhold Niebuhr

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

Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor. - Lady Bird Johnson

Politics is the chloroform of the Irish people, or, rather the hashish. - Oliver St. John Gogarty

Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for. - Will Rogers

Freedom of the press is useless when people do not understand what they read. - Gerald F Lieberman

In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is freedom, in water there is bacteria. - Ben Franklin

I do have a political agenda. It's to have as few regulations as possible. - Dan Quayle

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

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

Politicians who complain about the media are like sailors who complain about the sea. - Enoch Powell

The fastest way for a politician to become an elder statesman is to lose an election. - Earl Wilson

The indignation of politicians is NOT a good measure of the gravity of any situation. - Paul Harvey

We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway. - Will Durant

Of all the tasks of government, the most basic is to protect its citizens from violence. - John Foster Dulles

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

Officialese: A government language where you can understand the words, but not the sentences - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river. - Nikita Khrushchev

He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career. - George Bernard Shaw

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

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

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

The irony of the matter is that the future generations do not have a vote. In effect, we hold their proxy. - Charles J Hitch

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

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.)

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

Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes. - Robert Kennedy

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

It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians. - Henrik Ibsen

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote. - Benjamin Franklin

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

It was revealed in a government survey published today that the Prime Minister is doing the work of two men, Laurel and Hardy. - Ronnie Corbett

The greatest advantage I know of being thought a wit by the world is that it gives one the greater freedom of playing the fool. - Jonathan Swift

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

When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale. - John W. Gardner

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

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

We have believed - and we do believe now - that freedom is indivisible, that peace is indivisible, that economic prosperity is indivisible. - Indira Gandhi

Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired. - Robert F. Kennedy

NEED now means wanting someone else's money. GREED means wanting to keep your own. COMPASSION is when a politician arranges the transfer. - Joseph Sobran

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

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

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

Political correctness is about denial, usually in the weasel circumlocutory jargon which distorts and evades and seldom stands up to honest analysis. - George M Fraser

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