Flying Start in Sydney, Australia

Diplomacy: Lying in state. - Oliver Herford

Politics makes strange red-fellows. - Will Rogers

Man is by nature a political animal. - Aristotle

Under every stone lurks a politician. - Aristophanes

A penny saved is a Congressional oversight. - Hal Luyah

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun. - R Buckminster Fuller

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

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

A diplomat is a man who thinks twice before he says nothing. - Unknown

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

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

There is no distinctly American criminal class - except Congress. - Mark Twain

In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant. - Charles de Gaulle

Politics is the chloroform of the Irish people, or, rather the hashish. - Oliver St. John Gogarty

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

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

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

I do have a political agenda. It's to have as few regulations as possible. - Dan Quayle

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

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

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

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

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

Get thee glass eyes;
And, like a scurvy politician, seem
To see the things thou dost not. - William Shakespeare

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

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

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

If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner. - H L Mencken

Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you. - Pericles (430 B.C.)

Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless. - Milton Friedman

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 most dangerous person of the world is a member of the United States Congress just home from a three-day fact-finding trip. - Johnny Isakson

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

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

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

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other. - Voltaire

I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters, okay? It's, like, incredible. - Donald Trump

Being in politics is like being a football coach; you have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important. - Eugene McCarthy