Economic Stimulation

Man is by nature a political animal. - Aristotle

Television is democracy at its ugliest. - Paddy Chayefsky

Voters want a fraud they can believe in. - Will Durst

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

To receive a benefit is to sell your liberty. - Laberius

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

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

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit. - Khalil Gibran

If men were angels, no government would be necessary. - James Madison

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

I greet you in the name of peace, democracy, and freedom. - Nelson Mandela

Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party. - Herbert Hoover

In politics, a lie unanswered becomes truth within 24 hours. - Willie Brown

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

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

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

Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote. - William E. Simon

In a democracy the majority has every right to act as stupid as the minority. - Frank Dane

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

Liberty is the right to do what I like; license, the right to do what you like. - Bertrand Russell

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

Passover affirms the great truth that liberty is the inalienable right of every human being. - Morris Joseph

I think it's an absolute disaster that Australia, the government, allowed kangaroo culling. - Steve Irwin

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

A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have. - Thomas Jefferson

Politics: Poli, a Latin word meaning "many"; and tics, meaning "bloodsucking creatures." - Robin Williams

Democracy means that anyone can grow up to be president, and anyone who doesn't grow up can be vice president. - Johnny Carson

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 wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress. - Ronald Reagan

If the government was as afraid of disturbing the consumer as it is of disturbing business, this would be some democracy. - Kin Hubbard

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

It would be nice to spend billions on schools and roads, but right now that money is desperately needed for political ads. - Andy Borowitz

Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. - Ambrose Bierce

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book. - Ronald Reagan

It was revealed in a government survey published today that the Prime Minister is doing the work of two men, Laurel and Hardy. - Ronnie Corbett

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

The workers' and peasants' government proposes to all warring peoples... negotiations leading to a just, democratic peace. - Lenin

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

Our ancestors believed in magic, prayers, trickery, browbeating and bullying. I think it would be fair to sum that up as 'Irish politics'. - Flann O'Brien