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Good government is good politics. - Richard J. Daley

In politics nothing is contemptible. - Benjamin Disraeli

Criticism is prejudice made plausible. - H L Mencken

Assumptions are the termites of relationships. - Henry Winkler

All government, of course, is against liberty. - H L Mencken

Politics is just show business for ugly people. - Jay Leno

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight. - Leo Rosten

Politics is the art of controlling your environment. - Hunter S. Thompson

Government is an endless pursuit of new ways to tax. - Unknown

The art of government is the organization of idolatry. - George Bernard Shaw

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

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

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

Prejudice comes from being in the dark; sunlight disinfects it. - Muhammad Ali

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

The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world. - Reinhold Niebuhr

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

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

Once the toothpaste is out of the tube, it is awfully hard to get it back in. - H.R. Haldeman

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

No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power. - Jacob Bronowski

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. - George Bernard Shaw

As a man in a relationship, you have a simple choice: You can be right or you can be happy. - Ralphie May

I think it's an absolute disaster that Australia, the government, allowed kangaroo culling. - Steve Irwin

Good thing we've still got politics in Texas - finest form of free entertainment ever invented. - Molly Ivins

The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare. - Daniel P Moynihan

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

Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism. - Claude McKay

The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning. - Theodor Adorno

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand. - Milton Friedman

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.)

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

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

Taxpayer - someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination. - Ronald Reagan

I have certain rules I live by. My first rule: I don't believe anything the government tells me. Nothing. Zero. - George Carlin

What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those? - Gilbert Highet

Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. - Ambrose Bierce

Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the Government take care of him, better take a closer look at the American Indian. - Henry Ford

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