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Jazz is democracy in music. - Wynton Marsalis

All politics is applesauce. - Will Rogers

Politics is an inexact science. - Otto von Bismarck

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

Politics have no relation to morals. - Niccolo Machiavelli

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

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

Intelligence has nothing to do with politics. - Londo Molari

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

All government, of course, is against liberty. - H L Mencken

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

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

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

The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia. - Otto von Bismarck

Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity. - Albert Einstein

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

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

There is no distinctly American criminal class - except Congress. - Mark Twain

You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think. - Milton Berle

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

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

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

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. - Aristotle

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

Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated. - Will Rogers

Everyone wants to eat at the government's table, but nobody wants to do the dishes. - Werner Finck

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

The difference between death and taxes is death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets. - Will Rogers

Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity. - Irving Kristol

In Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination. - Irving Layton

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

Democracy is very different in U.S. and A. from Kazakhstan. In America, woman can vote, but horse cannot! - Borat Sagdiyev

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

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

One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are. - Cal Thomas

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

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

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

A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life. - John Stuart Mill