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Jazz is democracy in music. - Wynton Marsalis

Liberty, Equality, Fraternity! - Unknown

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

Not failure, but low aim, is crime. - J. R. Lowell

In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith. - J. William Fulbright

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

We are all of us the worse for too much liberty. - Terence

Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you. - Ralph Nader

Politics is the art of controlling your environment. - Hunter S. Thompson

I always thought of losing my virginity as a career move. - Madonna

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance. - Robert Frost

A diplomat is a man who thinks twice before he says nothing. - Unknown

Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows - marriage does. - Groucho Marx

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

My breasts have a career of their own. Theirs is going better. - Jennifer L Hewitt

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. - George Bernard Shaw

I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent. - Edith Sitwell

The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government. - Edward Abbey

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

Politics is a profession where the paths of glory lead but to the gravy. - Billy Boy Franklin

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

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

When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy. - Charles de Secondat

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. - Winston Churchill

To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy. - Bertrand Russell

In a democracy, the one thing that cannot be done is to destroy its trust, its hope, its idealism. - Teresa Heinz

It's our experience that political leaders don't always mean the opposite of what they say. - Abba Eban

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

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time. - E.B. White

In school, every period ends with a bell. Every sentence ends with a period. Every crime ends with a sentence. - Steven Wright

A man with a career can have no time to waste upon his wife and friends; he has to devote it wholly to his enemies. - John Hobbes

He is one of those wise philanthropists who, in a time of famine, would vote for nothing but a supply of toothpicks. - Douglas Jerrold

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

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

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

Papers say: 'Congress is deadlocked and can't act.' I think that is the greatest blessing that could befall this country. - Will Rogers

Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other. - Oscar Ameringer