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We need a great president. - Donald Trump

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

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

The problem with political jokes is they get elected. - Henry Cate, VII

Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. - Charles de Gaulle

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

World War II was the last government program that really worked. - George Will

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

Needless to say, the president is correct. Whatever it was he said. - Donald Rumsfeld

For every action, there is an equal and opposite government program. - Bob Wells

The President is going to lead us out of this recovery. It will happen. - Dan Quayle

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

In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take. - Adlai Stevenson

Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated. - Will Rogers

The reason I'm running for President is because I can't be Bruce Springsteen. - Barack Obama

The fastest way for a politician to become an elder statesman is to lose an election. - Earl Wilson

In America the President reigns for four years and journalism governs forever and ever. - Oscar Wilde

Of all the tasks of government, the most basic is to protect its citizens from violence. - John Foster Dulles

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

In America any boy may become President, and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes. - Adlai Stevenson

I must study politics and war that my sons may have the liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. - John Adams

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

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

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. - John Kenneth Galbraith

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. - Plato

Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds. - Thurgood Marshall

The business of government is to keep the government out of business - that is, unless business needs government aid. - Will Rogers

Being President is a lot like running a cemetery. You've got a lot of people under you and nobody's listening. - Bill Clinton

Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half. - Gore Vidal

I like thieves. Some of my best friends are thieves. Why, just last week we had the president of the bank over for dinner. - WC Fields

Very few of these panic-mongers have any personal knowledge of the countries that are already under blackshirt government. - Lord Rothermere

When it comes to politics, I sit down on a sofa and grab some popcorn - or sometimes I crouch down in order not to get shot. - Sergey Galitsky

It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen. - George MacDonald

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 Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does. - Bill Vaughan

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

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my country. I make up for lost time when I am at home. - Winston Churchill

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: "President Can't Swim." - Lyndon B. Johnson