Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told President Joe Biden, “This morning, three Brazilian people died from the Covid-19 immunization.” Diplomacy: Lying in state. - Oliver Herford The world is governed by opinion. - William E. Channing Politics makes strange postmasters. - Kin Hubbard Erection: When Japanese go to vote. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com Politics have no relation to morals. - Niccolo Machiavelli Television is democracy at its ugliest. - Paddy Chayefsky One cannot govern with "buts." - Charles de Gaulle Don't vote; it only encourages them. - Unknown Information is the currency of democracy. - Unknown Feudalism: It's your Count that votes - Daffynitions joe-ks.com Man is not free unless government is limited. - Ronald Reagan Every country has the government it deserves. - Joseph de Maistre Practical politics consists in ignoring facts. - Henry Brooks Adams A government of law is a government of lawyers. - Saying Liberty is never being too sure you're right. - Learned Hand The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun. - R Buckminster Fuller The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia. - Otto von Bismarck Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance. - 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 Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under. - H L Mencken An honest man in politics shines more than he would elsewhere. - Mark Twain I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together. - Gerald R. Ford It's a terrible shame that politics has become show business. - Sydney Pollack Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy. - Sir Peter Ustinov I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat. - Will Rogers Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed. - Mao Zedong Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote. - William E. Simon University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. - Henry Kissinger Democrats haven't been this upset since Republicans freed their slaves. - Unknown The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop. - P.J. O'Rourke I do have a political agenda. It's to have as few regulations as possible. - Dan Quayle Liberty is the right to do what I like; license, the right to do what you like. - Bertrand Russell Democracy is also a form of religion; it is the worship of jackals by jackasses. - H L Mencken Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated. - Will Rogers Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business. - Tom Robbins Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it. - Laurence J Peter When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy. - Charles de Secondat Of all the tasks of government, the most basic is to protect its citizens from violence. - John Foster Dulles Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. - P.J. O'Rourke We go by the major vote, and if the majority are insane, the sane must go to the hospital. - Horace Mann That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves. - Thomas Jefferson I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government. - Woody Allen What is the first part of politics? Education. The second? Education. And the third? Education. - Jules Michelet In Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination. - Irving Layton So, if we lie to the government, it's a felony. But if they lie to us, it's politics. - Bill Murray If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. - George Orwell Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one. - Thomas Paine I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast. - Viktor Frankl Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. - Frederic Bastiat The largest party in America is neither the Democrats nor the Republicans. It's the party of non-voters. - Robert Reich 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 was a Democrat for a period of time early on. And then I was also an independent. And then I became a Republican. - Donald Trump Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless. - Milton Friedman Happiness is being content with what you have, living in freedom and liberty, having a good family life and good friends. - Divyanka Tripathi It would be nice to spend billions on schools and roads, but right now that money is desperately needed for political ads. - Andy Borowitz 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'm not interested in cutting the feet off my characters or stretching them to make them fit my certain political view. - Margaret Atwood Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. - Ambrose Bierce Every country must be absolutely free to adopt the type of economic, political and social system that it considers convenient. - Fidel Castro 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 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 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 In politics, as in womanizing, failure is decisive. It sheds its retrospective gloom on earlier endeavor which at the time seemed full of promise. - Malcolm Muggeridge
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