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There is no gambling like politics. - Benjamin Disraeli

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

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

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom. - Hannah Arendt

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts. - Henry Brooks Adams

Too much freedom can lead to the soul's decay. - Prince

Love is an exploding cigar that you willingly smoke. - Lynda Barry

I'm suffering a little bit from smoke exhilaration. - Archie Bunker

What this country needs are more unemployed politicians. - Edward Langley

We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home. - Edward R. Murrow

Political War: One in which everyone shoots from the lip - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

There can be no wise politics without thought beforehand. - Annie Besant

The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars. - William Westmoreland

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

I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

Commitments the voters don’t know about can't hurt you. - Ogden Nash

History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions. - Ted Koppei

The most important political office is that of the private citizen. - Louis D. Brandeis

Mexican marijuana, which he called the schoolboy's consolation. - James Purdy

An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought. - Simon Cameron

A politician will do anything to keep his job - even become a patriot. - William Randolph

Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least. - Robert Byrne

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

Every woman dreams of her own political career and her own place in life. - Raisa M. Gorbachev

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

Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure. - Bertrand Russell

Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. - John Kenneth Galbraith

Freedom of the press is useless when people do not understand what they read. - Gerald F Lieberman

If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be. - Evelyn Waugh

In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves. - Bernard Baruch

A nation which makes the final sacrifice for life and freedom does not get beaten. - Kemal Ataturk

There are no crooked politicians in America. They've legalized their thievery. - Frank Dane

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

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem. - J Krishnamurti

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. - P.J. O'Rourke

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

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

People want change but not too much change. Finding that balance is tricky for every politician. - Eleanor Clift

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

So, if we lie to the government, it's a felony.
But if they lie to us, it's politics. - Bill Murray

A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them. - P.J. O'Rourke

A diplomat is someone who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you will look forward to the trip. - Caskie Stinnett

This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer. - Will Rogers

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

Loving someone is a loss of freedom - but one doesn't think of it as loss because one gains so much else. - Erica Jong

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

Demagogue: A politician who can rock the boat and persuade everyone else that they're in a terrible storm - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

I won't eat anything that has intelligent life, but I would gladly eat a network executive or a politician. - Marty Feldman

Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes. - Robert Kennedy

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

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

Canada's political parties spend a few years in opposition and then govern as if it's permanent payback time. - Bob Rae

Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind. - Virginia Woolf

Of course God knew what would happen if they used their freedom the wrong way: apparently, He thought it worth the risk. - C S Lewis

None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free. - Pearl S Buck

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

Mason took in enough cannabis smoke to allow a Lipan Apache manipulating a blanket over it to transmit the complete works of Tennyson. - Richard Condon

I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own. - Margaret Atwood

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. - Aristotle

A politician should have three hats. One for throwing into the ring, one for talking through, and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected. - Carl Sandburg

I definitely believe marijuana helps with menstruation. Since I started smoking pot, my girlfriend’s period has become painless for me. - Randy Kagan

I had fried octopus last night. You have to be really quiet when you eat it. Otherwise, it emits a cloud of black smoke and falls on the floor. - Steven Wright