Trudeau Joins NDP Party

All politics is local. - Thomas P O'Neil

Forgetfulness is a form of freedom. - Kahlil Gibran

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom. - Soren Kierkegaard

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

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

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

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

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

The human race is governed by its imagination. - Napoleon Bonaparte

Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better. - Albert Camus

Some people like to eat octopus. Liberals, mostly. - Russell Baker

America is a land where men govern, but women rule. - John M Brown

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

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

Nothing is more important than independence and freedom. - Ho Chi Minh

I greet you in the name of peace, democracy, and freedom. - Nelson Mandela

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

Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party. - Herbert Hoover

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

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

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

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

I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. - Will Rogers

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

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

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

Personally, I'm against political jokes. Too often they get elected to office. - Henny Youngman

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

The trouble with free elections is that you never know how they are going to turn out. - Vyacheslav Molotov

Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism. - Bill Moyers

Nothing changes the gender equation more significantly than women's economic freedom. - Gloria Steinem

If crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? - George Carlin

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

To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy. - Bertrand Russell

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

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

Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it. - Tom Robbins

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

Ex-Presidents of the United States get state subsidies. Not so in Russia. You get no government support. - Mikhail Gorbachev

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

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

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand. - Milton Friedman

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.)

At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else. - Shirley Chisholm

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

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

The business of government is to keep the government out of business - that is, unless business needs government aid. - Will Rogers

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

Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind. - Virginia Woolf

Very few of these panic-mongers have any personal knowledge of the countries that are already under blackshirt government. - Lord Rothermere

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

Freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down the fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged. - Alice Walker

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

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

When it comes to politics, I sit down on a sofa and grab some popcorn - or sometimes I crouch down in order not to get shot. - Sergey Galitsky

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

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

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

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

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

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

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