North Korean Rhetoric

There is no gambling like politics. - Benjamin Disraeli

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

Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you. - Ralph Nader

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit. - Khalil Gibran

I love a dog. He does nothing for political reasons. - Will Rogers

Most bad government results from too much government. - Thomas Jefferson

The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression. - W.E.B. Du Bois

There can be no wise politics without thought beforehand. - Annie Besant

Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets. - Ronald Reagan

A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves. - Bertrand de Jouvenel

An honest man in politics shines more than he would elsewhere. - Mark Twain

For every action, there is an equal and opposite government program. - Bob Wells

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

Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for. - Will Rogers

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

I do have a political agenda. It's to have as few regulations as possible. - Dan Quayle

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. - P.J. O'Rourke

I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death. - Patrick Henry

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

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

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. - Robert Frost

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. - Thomas Jefferson

A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them. - P.J. O'Rourke

Good thing we've still got politics in Texas - finest form of free entertainment ever invented. - Molly Ivins

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

Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to my conscience, above all liberties. - John Milton

The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up. - Jay Leno

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

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. - Plato

There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism. - Alexander Hamilton

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

I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other. - Napoleon Bonaparte

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

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

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

Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. - Ronald Reagan

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. - Aristotle

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