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Diplomacy: Lying in state. - Oliver Herford

Good government is good politics. - Richard J. Daley

A week is a long time in politics. - Harold Wilson

Politics is war by other measures. - Steve Bannon

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

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

Feudalism: It's your Count that votes - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

Everybody knows politics is a contact sport. - Barrack Obama

Every country has the government it deserves. - Joseph de Maistre

I never vote for anyone; I always vote against. - WC Fields

Democracy breeds the germs of its own destruction. - V I Lenin

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun. - R Buckminster Fuller

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

Political War: One in which everyone shoots from the lip - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under. - H L Mencken

Democracy! Bah! When I hear that word I reach for my feather Boa. - Allen Ginsberg

I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. - Will Rogers

Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will. - Mikhail Bakunin

Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure. - Bertrand Russell

To lodge all power in one party and keep it there is to insure bad government. - Mark Twain

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

The short memories of American voters is what keeps our politicians in office. - Will Rogers

A good politician, under democracy, is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar. - H L Mencken

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

My sheer existence is like a political act to a lot of people. It's not to me. - Grimes

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

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

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

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

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

One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government. - Donald Trump

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

Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless. - Milton Friedman

When it comes to politics, I sit down on a sofa and grab some popcorn - or sometimes I crouch down in order not to get shot. - Sergey Galitsky

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. - Aristotle

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

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