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There is no gambling like politics. - Benjamin Disraeli

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

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

In politics an absurdity is not a handicap. - Napoleon Bonaparte

Man is not free unless government is limited. - Ronald Reagan

Intelligence has nothing to do with politics. - Londo Molari

From politics, it was an easy step to silence. - Jane Austen

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts. - Henry Brooks Adams

Government is an endless pursuit of new ways to tax. - Unknown

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

The problem with political jokes is they get elected. - Henry Cate, VII

If men were angels, no government would be necessary. - James Madison

Bulldozing: Going to sleep during a political speech. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

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

I don't go around signin' no political documentaries. - Archie Bunker

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

Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together. - Gerald R. Ford

The most important political office is that of the private citizen. - Louis D. Brandeis

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

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

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

Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it. - Tom Robbins

I think it's an absolute disaster that Australia, the government, allowed kangaroo culling. - Steve Irwin

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

I must study politics and war that my sons may have the liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. - John Adams

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

The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning. - Theodor Adorno

Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you. - Pericles (430 B.C.)

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

If the government was as afraid of disturbing the consumer as it is of disturbing business, this would be some democracy. - Kin Hubbard

It would be nice to spend billions on schools and roads, but right now that money is desperately needed for political ads. - Andy Borowitz

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

I am quite sure now that often in matters concerning religion and politics, a man's reasoning powers are not above the monkeys. - Mark Twain

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

Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people. - Joe Biden

Political correctness is about denial, usually in the weasel circumlocutory jargon which distorts and evades and seldom stands up to honest analysis. - George M Fraser

Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments. - Isaac Asimov