QuotaBillsDiplomacy: Lying in state. - Oliver Herford
Man is by nature a political animal. - Aristotle
Feudalism: It's your Count that votes - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
Man is not free unless government is limited. - Ronald Reagan
Political correctness is tyranny with manners. - Charlton Heston
Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you. - Ralph Nader
Government is an endless pursuit of new ways to tax. - Unknown
Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory. - John Kenneth Galbraith
Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party. - Herbert Hoover
Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no distinctly American criminal class - except Congress. - Mark Twain
I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent. - Edith Sitwell
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought. - Simon Cameron
Politics is a profession where the paths of glory lead but to the gravy. - Billy Boy Franklin
Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote. - William E. Simon
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. - Henry Kissinger
Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing. - Bernard Baruch
Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. - John Kenneth Galbraith
No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power. - Jacob Bronowski
Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business. - Tom Robbins
I learned a long time ago in Hollywood that the only person I should vote for is myself. - Jack Nicholson
Of all the tasks of government, the most basic is to protect its citizens from violence. - John Foster Dulles
Good thing we've still got politics in Texas - finest form of free entertainment ever invented. - Molly Ivins
I don't look for much to come out of government ownership as long as we have Democrats and Republicans. - Kin Hubbard
I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses. - Victor Hugo
I won't eat anything that has intelligent life, but I would gladly eat a network executive or a politician. - Marty Feldman
The only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in keeping their money in their own pockets. - Lysander Spooner
At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else. - Shirley Chisholm
Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds. - Thurgood Marshall
I have certain rules I live by. My first rule: I don't believe anything the government tells me. Nothing. Zero. - George Carlin
In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate. - Charles de Gaulle
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
The nine most terrifying words in the English language are,
"I'm from the government and I'm here to help." - Ronald Reagan
Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. - Ronald Reagan
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
In politics, as in womanizing, failure is decisive. It sheds its retrospective gloom on earlier endeavor which at the time seemed full of promise. - Malcolm Muggeridge
The best way to lose weight is to close your mouth - something very difficult for a politician. Or watch your food - just watch it, don't eat it. - Edward I Kock
Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments. - Isaac Asimov