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Liberty is the right to silence. - Unknown

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

Crime does not pay as well as politics. - Alfred E. Newman

Don't vote; it only encourages them. - Unknown

A government of law is a government of lawyers. - Saying

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

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory. - John Kenneth Galbraith

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

We have the best government in the world... that money can buy. - Mark Twain

Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest thing in the nicest way. - Isaac Goldberg

Commitments the voters don’t know about can't hurt you. - Ogden Nash

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

I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat. - Will Rogers

Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week. - Will Rogers

Politics is the chloroform of the Irish people, or, rather the hashish. - Oliver St. John Gogarty

Government of the people, by the people, and for the pursuit of happiness. - Archie Bunker

The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy. - Theodore White

Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame. - Bertrand Russell

Of all the tasks of government, the most basic is to protect its citizens from violence. - John Foster Dulles

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

Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But then I repeat myself. - Mark Twain

He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career. - George Bernard Shaw

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

The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare. - Daniel P Moynihan

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

My love life is terrible. The last time I was inside a woman was when I visited the Statue of Liberty. - Woody Allen

Ex-Presidents of the United States get state subsidies. Not so in Russia. You get no government support. - Mikhail Gorbachev

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. - H L Mencken

I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses. - Victor Hugo

The largest party in America is neither the Democrats nor the Republicans. It's the party of non-voters. - Robert Reich

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 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.)

At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else. - Shirley Chisholm

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

I have certain rules I live by. My first rule: I don't believe anything the government tells me. Nothing. Zero. - George Carlin

It's especially hard if the government is not providing services, or is even conducting ethnic cleansing against you. - Paul Harvey

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

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