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Politics is an inexact science. - Otto von Bismarck

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

Life is a relationship between molecules. - Linus Pauling

There will be no whitewash at the White House. - Richard M Nixon

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

I love a dog. He does nothing for political reasons. - Will Rogers

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

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

Mirror, mirror, on the wall, I am my mother after all. - Unknown

Self-government won't work without self-discipline. - Paul Harvey

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

Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity. - Albert Einstein

World War II was the last government program that really worked. - George Will

Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things. - Keanu Reeves

Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others. - Wayne Dyer

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

The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government. - Edward Abbey

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

Politics is a profession where the paths of glory lead but to the gravy. - Billy Boy Franklin

Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will. - Mikhail Bakunin

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

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

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

Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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

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

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

There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you. - Will Rogers

So, if we lie to the government, it's a felony.
But if they lie to us, it's politics. - Bill Murray

Mark my words, when a society has to resort to the lavatory for its humour, the writing is on the wall. - Alan Bennett

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. - Frederic Bastiat

Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway. - Warren Buffett

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

The greatest mistake we humans make in our relationships: we listen half, understand quarter, think zero, and react double. - Unknown

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

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

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

These are stupid people that say, "Oh didn't Trump declare bankruptcy? Didn't he go bankrupt?" I didn't go bankrupt. - Donald Trump

Our ancestors believed in magic, prayers, trickery, browbeating and bullying. I think it would be fair to sum that up as 'Irish politics'. - Flann O'Brien