Destruction of America

There is no gambling like politics. - Benjamin Disraeli

Crime does not pay as well as politics. - Alfred E. Newman

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

Everybody knows politics is a contact sport. - Barrack Obama

Political correctness is tyranny with manners. - Charlton Heston

Politics is just show business for ugly people. - Jay Leno

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

I never saw anything funnier than Texas politics. - Molly Ivins

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

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance. - Robert Frost

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

Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure. - Bertrand Russell

No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power. - Jacob Bronowski

Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated. - Will Rogers

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power. - Aldous Huxley

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business. - Tom Robbins

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

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

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

Ronald Reagan knew who he was. Barack Obama is still working through that equation politically. - Joe Scarborough

So, if we lie to the government, it's a felony.
But if they lie to us, it's politics. - Bill Murray

Such is the irresistible nature of truth that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing. - Thomas Paine

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. - Frederic Bastiat

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

The only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in keeping their money in their own pockets. - Lysander Spooner

I have certain rules I live by. My first rule: I don't believe anything the government tells me. Nothing. Zero. - George Carlin

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

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 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

Even a race to Obama, she was gonna beat Obama. I don't know who would be worse, I don't know, how could it be worse? - Donald Trump

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book. - Ronald Reagan

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

A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life. - John Stuart Mill

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

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

Our ancestors believed in magic, prayers, trickery, browbeating and bullying. I think it would be fair to sum that up as 'Irish politics'. - Flann O'Brien