QuotaBillsJazz is democracy in music. - Wynton Marsalis
Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs. - Isaiah Berlin
Talk is cheap... except when Congress does it. - Unknown
All government, of course, is against liberty. - H L Mencken
I never vote for anyone; I always vote against. - WC Fields
Liberty is never being too sure you're right. - Learned Hand
Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you. - Ralph Nader
The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun. - R Buckminster Fuller
Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote. - George Jean Nathan
Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance. - Robert Frost
Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under. - H L Mencken
A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top. - James Reston
Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. - Charles de Gaulle
The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world. - Reinhold Niebuhr
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
I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. - Will Rogers
A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue. - Daniel Webster
Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. - John Kenneth Galbraith
I do have a political agenda. It's to have as few regulations as possible. - Dan Quayle
The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy. - Theodore White
Democracy is also a form of religion; it is the worship of jackals by jackasses. - H L Mencken
Either the government will be given to us or we shall seize it by marching on Rome. - Benito Mussolini
Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it. - Mark Twain
Such is the irresistible nature of truth that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing. - Thomas Paine
The only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in keeping their money in their own pockets. - Lysander Spooner
Harold MacMillan is a very intelligent man, who, as so often happens in politics, achieved supreme power too late. - Malcolm Muggeridge
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote. - Benjamin Franklin
What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those? - Gilbert Highet
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
Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary. - Reinhold Niebuhr
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy. - Groucho Marx
Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost. - John Quincy Adams
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
We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both. - Louis D. Branders
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
Papers say: 'Congress is deadlocked and can't act.' I think that is the greatest blessing that could befall this country. - Will Rogers
When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale. - John W. Gardner
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
Regarded simply as a politician, and compared with the other leading political figures of our time, how clean a smell he has managed to leave behind. - Mahatma Gandhi