Ode To The Welfare State

Politics is war by other measures. - Steve Bannon

Take it from me - elections matter. - Al Gore

Erection: When Japanese go to vote. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs. - Isaiah Berlin

Information is the currency of democracy. - Unknown

In politics the middle way is none at all. - John Adams

In politics an absurdity is not a handicap. - Napoleon Bonaparte

Liberty consists in doing what one desires. - John Stuart Mill

A penny saved is a Congressional oversight. - Hal Luyah

Intelligence has nothing to do with politics. - Londo Molari

Every country has the government it deserves. - Joseph de Maistre

Liberty is never being too sure you're right. - Learned Hand

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business. - Winston Churchill

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

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Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets. - Ronald Reagan

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

In politics, a lie unanswered becomes truth within 24 hours. - Willie Brown

I don't go around signin' no political documentaries. - Archie Bunker

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

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

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

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

Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy. - Sir Peter Ustinov

People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge. - Lao-tzu

Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week. - Will Rogers

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

Government of the people, by the people, and for the pursuit of happiness. - Archie Bunker

The trouble with free elections is, you never know who is going to get in. - Leonid Brezhnev

Democrats haven't been this upset since Republicans freed their slaves. - Unknown

If I wished to punish a province, I would have it governed by philosophers. - Frederick The Great

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

If I don't get along with Democrats, I'm sort of, like, out of business. - Donald Trump

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business. - Tom Robbins

Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it. - Laurence J Peter

We go by the major vote, and if the majority are insane, the sane must go to the hospital. - Horace Mann

I am on your Walk of Fame in Toronto. My sense of humour is Canadian. But I can't vote. - Donald Sutherland

What right does Congress have to go around making laws just because they deem it necessary? - Marion Barry

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

Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity. - Irving Kristol

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

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one. - Thomas Paine

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

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

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

This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer. - Will Rogers

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time. - E.B. White

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. - John Kenneth Galbraith

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

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.)

Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds. - Thurgood Marshall

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

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

Very few of these panic-mongers have any personal knowledge of the countries that are already under blackshirt government. - Lord Rothermere

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy. - Groucho Marx

When it comes to politics, I sit down on a sofa and grab some popcorn - or sometimes I crouch down in order not to get shot. - Sergey Galitsky

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

The nine most terrifying words in the English language are,
"I'm from the government and I'm here to help." - Ronald Reagan

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

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

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

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