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Liberty is the right to silence. - Unknown

The world is governed by opinion. - William E. Channing

Politics makes strange red-fellows. - Will Rogers

Man is by nature a political animal. - Aristotle

Don't vote; it only encourages them. - Unknown

Voters want a fraud they can believe in. - Will Durst

Everybody knows politics is a contact sport. - Barrack Obama

To receive a benefit is to sell your liberty. - Laberius

Ideas govern the world or throw it into chaos. - Auguste Comte

Democracy breeds the germs of its own destruction. - V I Lenin

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

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

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

If men were angels, no government would be necessary. - James Madison

Government cannot and must not replace private initiative. - Kim Campbell

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

An honest man in politics shines more than he would elsewhere. - Mark Twain

How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese? - Charles de Gaulle

War has rules, mud wrestling has rules - politics has no rules. - Ross Perot

Idealism loses to pragmatism when it comes to winning elections. - Danny Strong

I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat. - Will Rogers

Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote. - William E. Simon

Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. - John Kenneth Galbraith

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

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

The short memories of American voters is what keeps our politicians in office. - Will Rogers

A filmmaker we almost lost to politics... my friend and colleague, Warren Beatty. - Jack Nicholson

The secret of political bargaining is to look more strong than what you really are. - Subhash Bose

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

Whenever a fellow tells me he's bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me. - Harry S Truman

To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy. - Bertrand Russell

Passover affirms the great truth that liberty is the inalienable right of every human being. - Morris Joseph

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

I have a wonderful make-up crew. They're the same people restoring the Statue of Liberty. - Bob Hope

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

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

Why pay money to have your family tree traced; go into politics and your opponents will do it for you. - Unknown

My love life is terrible. The last time I was inside a woman was when I visited the Statue of Liberty. - Woody Allen

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. - H L Mencken

Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave. - Henry Brougham

Americans should not go abroad to slay dragons they do not understand in the name of spreading democracy. - John Quincy Adams

Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have elections is to find out if the polls were right? - Robert Orben

I don't look for much to come out of government ownership as long as we have Democrats and Republicans. - Kin Hubbard

They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men. - Clare Boothe Luce

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

Harold MacMillan is a very intelligent man, who, as so often happens in politics, achieved supreme power too late. - Malcolm Muggeridge

Frankly, I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry. - Joseph Heller

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's especially hard if the government is not providing services, or is even conducting ethnic cleansing against you. - Paul Harvey

If the government was as afraid of disturbing the consumer as it is of disturbing business, this would be some democracy. - Kin Hubbard

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

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost. - John Quincy Adams

We're at a point in history where everyone needs to pay attention to politics. Too much is at stake for us to be apathetic. - Kevin Costner

In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress. - John Adams

We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both. - Louis D. Branders

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

Papers say: 'Congress is deadlocked and can't act.' I think that is the greatest blessing that could befall this country. - Will Rogers

Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people. - Joe Biden

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. - Aristotle

Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don't vote. - Paul Harvey

I work as if I were going to be the next person to need a respirator. I share in the benefits I bestow on others, and my work has enriched my life. - Forrest Bird

Regarded simply as a politician, and compared with the other leading political figures of our time, how clean a smell he has managed to leave behind. - Mahatma Gandhi

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