Missile Launch

All politics is local. - Thomas P O'Neil

All politics is applesauce. - Will Rogers

Liberty is the right to silence. - Unknown

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

The gun is not out of Irish politics. - Ian Paisley

Political correctness is tyranny with manners. - Charlton Heston

All government, of course, is against liberty. - H L Mencken

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts. - Henry Brooks Adams

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

We are all of us the worse for too much liberty. - Terence

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun. - R Buckminster Fuller

The art of government is the organization of idolatry. - George Bernard Shaw

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

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

Liberty: One of Imagination's most previous possessions. - Ambrose Bierce

A diplomat is a man who thinks twice before he says nothing. - Unknown

A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top. - James Reston

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

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

Government of the people, by the people, and for the pursuit of happiness. - Archie Bunker

To lodge all power in one party and keep it there is to insure bad government. - Mark Twain

We meet today
To thank Thee for the era done,
And Thee for the opening one. - John Greenleaf Whittier

My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight. - John F Kennedy

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

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

It's our experience that political leaders don't always mean the opposite of what they say. - Abba Eban

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

A diplomat is someone who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you will look forward to the trip. - Caskie Stinnett

When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves. - George Pataki

Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds. - Thurgood Marshall

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

One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are. - Cal Thomas

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

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

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

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

I do not like to get the news, because there has never been an era when so many things were going so right for so many of the wrong persons. - Ogden Nash

In a world of complex threats, our security and leadership depends on all elements of our power - including strong and principled diplomacy. - Barack Obama