Trudeau Joins NDP Party

All politics is local. - Thomas P O'Neil

All politics is applesauce. - Will Rogers

Politics makes strange postmasters. - Kin Hubbard

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom. - Soren Kierkegaard

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

In politics nothing is contemptible. - Benjamin Disraeli

Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs. - Isaiah Berlin

Every country has the government it deserves. - Joseph de Maistre

Heresy is another word for freedom of thought. - Graham Greene

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business. - Winston Churchill

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

The Golden Rule has no place in a political campaign. - John J Ingalls

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory. - John Kenneth Galbraith

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

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

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

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

Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest thing in the nicest way. - Isaac Goldberg

It's a terrible shame that politics has become show business. - Sydney Pollack

Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide issues. - George Will

Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing. - Ayn Rand

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office. - Thomas Jefferson

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

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

This is your victory! It is the victory of the cause of freedom in every land. - Winston Churchill

Liberty is the right to do what I like; license, the right to do what you like. - Bertrand Russell

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

To be safe at the expense of the liberty of other people is a difficult equation. - Madeleine Albright

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

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

Everyone wants to eat at the government's table, but nobody wants to do the dishes. - Werner Finck

We go by the major vote, and if the majority are insane, the sane must go to the hospital. - Horace Mann

I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government. - Woody Allen

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

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

Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner. - James Bovard

Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude. - Dale Carnegie

In a democracy, the one thing that cannot be done is to destroy its trust, its hope, its idealism. - Teresa Heinz

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

My love life is terrible. The last time I was inside a woman was when I visited the Statue of Liberty. - Woody Allen

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

Politics: Poli, a Latin word meaning "many"; and tics, meaning "bloodsucking creatures." - Robin Williams

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

Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless. - Milton Friedman

In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate. - Charles de Gaulle

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

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

The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning, but without understanding. - Louis D Brandeis

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

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

We study the glory of God, and the honour and liberty of parliament, for which we fight, without seeking our own interests. - Oliver Cromwell

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

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy. - Groucho Marx

It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen. - George MacDonald

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

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedom, it will be because we destroyed ourselves. - Abraham Lincoln

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

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

The workers' and peasants' government proposes to all warring peoples... negotiations leading to a just, democratic peace. - Lenin

I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters, okay? It's, like, incredible. - Donald Trump

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

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

Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don't vote. - Paul Harvey

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