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All politics is applesauce. - Will Rogers

A week is a long time in politics. - Harold Wilson

Politics makes strange red-fellows. - Will Rogers

Politics makes strange postmasters. - Kin Hubbard

Man is by nature a political animal. - Aristotle

Under every stone lurks a politician. - Aristophanes

From politics, it was an easy step to silence. - Jane Austen

Most bad government results from too much government. - Thomas Jefferson

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

Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party. - Herbert Hoover

You can't get rich in politics unless you're a crook. - Harry S Truman

A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves. - Bertrand de Jouvenel

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

Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide issues. - George Will

The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I'd be honest. - Rodney Dangerfield

A politician is a man who approaches every problem with an open mouth. - Adlai Stevenson

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

I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. - Will Rogers

University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. - Henry Kissinger

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

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

Either the government will be given to us or we shall seize it by marching on Rome. - Benito Mussolini

Everyone wants to eat at the government's table, but nobody wants to do the dishes. - Werner Finck

My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight. - John F Kennedy

Officialese: A government language where you can understand the words, but not the sentences - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

What is the first part of politics? Education. The second? Education. And the third? Education. - Jules Michelet

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

A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have. - Thomas Jefferson

Democracy is very different in U.S. and A. from Kazakhstan. In America, woman can vote, but horse cannot! - Borat Sagdiyev

The man who can make others laugh secures more votes for a measure than the man who forces them to think. - Malcolm de Chazal

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

The only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in keeping their money in their own pockets. - Lysander Spooner

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

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote. - Benjamin Franklin

It would be nice to spend billions on schools and roads, but right now that money is desperately needed for political ads. - Andy Borowitz

The workers' and peasants' government proposes to all warring peoples... negotiations leading to a just, democratic peace. - Lenin

I am quite sure now that often in matters concerning religion and politics, a man's reasoning powers are not above the monkeys. - Mark Twain

When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale. - John W. Gardner

I once said to my father, when I was a boy, 'Dad we need a third political party.' He said to me, 'I'll settle for a second.' - Ralph Nader

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