QuotaBillsPolitics have no relation to morals. - Niccolo Machiavelli
Information is the currency of democracy. - Unknown
Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum. - Oliver Wendell Holmes
What is this, an audience or an oil painting? - Milton Berle
There can be no wise politics without thought beforehand. - Annie Besant
Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party. - Herbert Hoover
Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows - marriage does. - Groucho Marx
World War II was the last government program that really worked. - George Will
Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide issues. - George Will
I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat. - Will Rogers
To deceive a diplomat speak the truth, he has no experience with it. - Greek Proverb
To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy. - Will Durant
In politics, madame, you need two things: friends, but above all an enemy. - Brian Mulroney
Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for. - Will Rogers
Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will. - Mikhail Bakunin
Democracy used to be a good thing, but now it has gotten into the wrong hands. - Jesse Helms
The short memories of American voters is what keeps our politicians in office. - Will Rogers
The police force cannot be completely independent of the executive government. - P Chidambaram
American Politics: A form of socialism for the rich, including the politicians. - Gregory Nunn
Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame. - Bertrand Russell
Personally, I'm against political jokes. Too often they get elected to office. - Henny Youngman
Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business. - Tom Robbins
I love Canada. I am from Canada. I will bash the Canadian government but never Canada. - Jason Priestley
In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man; if you want anything done, ask a woman. - Margaret Thatcher
Officialese: A government language where you can understand the words, but not the sentences - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
It's not your painting anymore. It stopped being your painting the moment that you finished it. - Jeff Melvoin
The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare. - Daniel P Moynihan
When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves. - George Pataki
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time. - E.B. White
Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism. - Claude McKay
In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate. - Charles de Gaulle
Freedom has many difficulties and democracy is not perfect. But we have never had to put a wall up to keep our people in. - John F Kennedy
Very few of these panic-mongers have any personal knowledge of the countries that are already under blackshirt government. - Lord Rothermere
It was revealed in a government survey published today that the Prime Minister is doing the work of two men, Laurel and Hardy. - Ronnie Corbett
A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life. - John Stuart Mill
Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other. - Oscar Ameringer
Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. - Aristotle
When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my country. I make up for lost time when I am at home. - Winston Churchill
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
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