Bill and Donald

All politics is local. - Thomas P O'Neil

Man is by nature a political animal. - Aristotle

The gun is not out of Irish politics. - Ian Paisley

The freedom of birds is an insult to me. - Cormac McCarthy

Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs. - Isaiah Berlin

Information is the currency of democracy. - Unknown

An educated people can be easily governed. - Frederick II

You campaign in poetry; you govern in prose. - Mario Cuomo

Ideas govern the world or throw it into chaos. - Auguste Comte

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

A government of law is a government of lawyers. - Saying

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

I never saw anything funnier than Texas politics. - Molly Ivins

The Golden Rule has no place in a political campaign. - John J Ingalls

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

The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism. - Wole Soyinka

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

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under. - H L Mencken

Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

It's a terrible shame that politics has become show business. - Sydney Pollack

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

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

To lodge all power in one party and keep it there is to insure bad government. - Mark Twain

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

The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy. - Theodore White

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

We have within us an extraordinary capacity for love, joy, and unshakable freedom. - Jack Kornfield

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power. - Aldous Huxley

People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid. - Soren Kierkegaard

I learned a long time ago in Hollywood that the only person I should vote for is myself. - Jack Nicholson

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

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity. - Karl Marx

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

I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government. - Woody Allen

Freedom, privileges, options, must constantly be exercised, even at the risk of inconvenience. - Jack Vance

There is freedom in forgiveness, and it's not that hard to do once you get into the habit. - Dana Perino

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. - Thomas Jefferson

Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude. - Dale Carnegie

The difference between death and taxes is death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets. - Will Rogers

Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity. - Irving Kristol

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

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

I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing. - H L Mencken

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. - George Orwell

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

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it. - Thomas Paine

When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power. - Maggie Gallagher

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

There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy. - Fidel Castro

I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone. - H L Mencken

The seeds of learning can grow almost anywhere. Trump University and my other education-related ventures like... - Donald Trump

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

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

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

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

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

Every country must be absolutely free to adopt the type of economic, political and social system that it considers convenient. - Fidel Castro

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

There is nothing more majestic than the determined courage of individuals willing to suffer and sacrifice for their freedom and dignity. - Martin Luther King Jr

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

Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold you have escaped, not from one master, but from many. - Plato

Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time. - Bertrand Russell

Regarded simply as a politician, and compared with the other leading political figures of our time, how clean a smell he has managed to leave behind. - Mahatma Gandhi