![]() All politics is local. - Thomas P O'Neil Liberty, Equality, Fraternity! - Unknown Politics have no relation to morals. - Niccolo Machiavelli The gun is not out of Irish politics. - Ian Paisley Every country has the government it deserves. - Joseph de Maistre All government, of course, is against liberty. - H L Mencken A government of law is a government of lawyers. - Saying There can be no wise politics without thought beforehand. - Annie Besant Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows - marriage does. - Groucho Marx Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity. - Albert Einstein A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top. - James Reston An honest man in politics shines more than he would elsewhere. - Mark Twain Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs. - Ambrose Bierce The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world. - Reinhold Niebuhr The most important political office is that of the private citizen. - Louis D. Brandeis I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat. - Will Rogers To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy. - Will Durant Every woman dreams of her own political career and her own place in life. - Raisa M. Gorbachev Government of the people, by the people, and for the pursuit of happiness. - Archie Bunker Government can't give us anything without depriving us of something else. - Henry Hazlitt I do have a political agenda. It's to have as few regulations as possible. - Dan Quayle A filmmaker we almost lost to politics... my friend and colleague, Warren Beatty. - Jack Nicholson Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated. - Will Rogers A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. - George Bernard Shaw Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism. - Bill Moyers I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death. - Patrick Henry He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career. - George Bernard Shaw I think it's an absolute disaster that Australia, the government, allowed kangaroo culling. - Steve Irwin One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency. - Arnold H. Glasow Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to my conscience, above all liberties. - John Milton When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves. - George Pataki The only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in keeping their money in their own pockets. - Lysander Spooner At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else. - Shirley Chisholm Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless. - Milton Friedman In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate. - Charles de Gaulle We study the glory of God, and the honour and liberty of parliament, for which we fight, without seeking our own interests. - Oliver Cromwell The workers' and peasants' government proposes to all warring peoples... negotiations leading to a just, democratic peace. - Lenin 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 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 I once said to my father, when I was a boy, 'Dad we need a third political party.' He said to me, 'I'll settle for a second.' - Ralph Nader see also Government, Hospital & Politics Sections |
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