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All politics is applesauce. - Will Rogers

Good government is good politics. - Richard J. Daley

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

Everybody knows politics is a contact sport. - Barrack Obama

A career is a job that has gone on too long. - Jeff MacNelly

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

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

From politics, it was an easy step to silence. - Jane Austen

Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime. - G. Gordon Liddy

Liberty is never being too sure you're right. - Learned Hand

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

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

The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression. - W.E.B. Du Bois

Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets. - Ronald Reagan

Food, love, mother and career: the four basic guilt groups. - Cathy Guisewite

We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy. - Martin L. Gross

I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together. - Gerald R. Ford

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

The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop. - P.J. O'Rourke

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

My advice would be if you want to pursue a career in the music business, don't. - Simon Cowell

The secret of political bargaining is to look more strong than what you really are. - Subhash Bose

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people, by the people, for the people. - Oscar Wilde

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

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

Good thing we've still got politics in Texas - finest form of free entertainment ever invented. - Molly Ivins

The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare. - Daniel P Moynihan

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. - H L Mencken

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

Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds. - John P Barlow

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

Taxpayer - someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination. - Ronald Reagan

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

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

Freedom has many difficulties and democracy is not perfect. But we have never had to put a wall up to keep our people in. - John F Kennedy

I'm not interested in cutting the feet off my characters or stretching them to make them fit my certain political view. - Margaret Atwood

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy. - Groucho Marx

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

Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the Government take care of him, better take a closer look at the American Indian. - Henry Ford

I once said to my father, when I was a boy, 'Dad we need a third political party.' He said to me, 'I'll settle for a second.' - Ralph Nader