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All politics is local. - Thomas P O'Neil

Diplomacy: Lying in state. - Oliver Herford

Man is by nature a political animal. - Aristotle

Television is democracy at its ugliest. - Paddy Chayefsky

Liberty consists in doing what one desires. - John Stuart Mill

Talk is cheap... except when Congress does it. - Unknown

All diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means. - Zhou Enlai

Government cannot and must not replace private initiative. - Kim Campbell

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

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

We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy. - Martin L. Gross

You can't get rich in politics unless you're a crook. - Harry S Truman

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

Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least. - Robert Byrne

Politics is a profession where the paths of glory lead but to the gravy. - Billy Boy Franklin

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

Democracy used to be a good thing, but now it has gotten into the wrong hands. - Jesse Helms

The police force cannot be completely independent of the executive government. - P Chidambaram

Diplomacy is the art of saying, "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock. - Will Rogers

The secret of political bargaining is to look more strong than what you really are. - Subhash Bose

When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy. - Charles de Secondat

Whenever a fellow tells me he's bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me. - Harry S Truman

In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man; if you want anything done, ask a woman. - Margaret Thatcher

We could certainly slow the aging process down if it had to work its way through Congress. - Will Rogers

I have a wonderful make-up crew. They're the same people restoring the Statue of Liberty. - Bob Hope

Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner. - James Bovard

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

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

Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism. - Claude McKay

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

The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning, but without understanding. - Louis D Brandeis

Every country must be absolutely free to adopt the type of economic, political and social system that it considers convenient. - Fidel Castro

The nine most terrifying words in the English language are,
"I'm from the government and I'm here to help." - Ronald Reagan

A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election. - Bill Vaughan

I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters, okay? It's, like, incredible. - Donald Trump

If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep. - Will Rogers

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

Being in politics is like being a football coach; you have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important. - Eugene McCarthy

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