Organized Crime

The crime of loving is forgetting. - Maurice Chevalier

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

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

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

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

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

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

Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed. - Mao Zedong

To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy. - Will Durant

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

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

Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing. - Bernard Baruch

Government can't give us anything without depriving us of something else. - Henry Hazlitt

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

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

Personally, I'm against political jokes. Too often they get elected to office. - Henny Youngman

A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. - George Bernard Shaw

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

Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime. - Imre Lakatos

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

In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man; if you want anything done, ask a woman. - Margaret Thatcher

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

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

When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves. - George Pataki

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

The largest party in America is neither the Democrats nor the Republicans. It's the party of non-voters. - Robert Reich

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

They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men. - Clare Boothe Luce

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand. - Milton Friedman

Harold MacMillan is a very intelligent man, who, as so often happens in politics, achieved supreme power too late. - Malcolm Muggeridge

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

The nine most terrifying words in the English language are,
"I'm from the government and I'm here to help." - Ronald Reagan

When I finished school, I took one of those career-aptitude tests, and based on my verbal ability score, they suggested I become a mime. - Tim Cavanagh

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

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

Homosexuality in Russia is a crime and the punishment is seven years in prison, locked up with the other men. There is a three year waiting list. - Yakov Smirnoff