Without Government

All politics is applesauce. - Will Rogers

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

Politics is the art of the possible. - Otto von Bismarck

Liberty, once lost, is lost forever. - John Adams

Crime does not pay as well as politics. - Alfred E. Newman

In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith. - J. William Fulbright

A penny saved is a Congressional oversight. - Hal Luyah

Everybody knows politics is a contact sport. - Barrack Obama

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts. - Henry Brooks Adams

A diplomat is a man who thinks twice before he says nothing. - Unknown

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

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

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under. - H L Mencken

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

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

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

Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for. - Will Rogers

Democracy is also a form of religion; it is the worship of jackals by jackasses. - H L Mencken

I love Canada. I am from Canada. I will bash the Canadian government but never Canada. - Jason Priestley

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. - P.J. O'Rourke

Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But then I repeat myself. - Mark Twain

In a democracy, the one thing that cannot be done is to destroy its trust, its hope, its idealism. - Teresa Heinz

I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing. - H L Mencken

It's our experience that political leaders don't always mean the opposite of what they say. - Abba Eban

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

I must study politics and war that my sons may have the liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. - John Adams

Politics, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong. - Richard Armour

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

When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power. - Maggie Gallagher

I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses. - Victor Hugo

There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy. - Fidel Castro

I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone. - H L Mencken

The business of government is to keep the government out of business - that is, unless business needs government aid. - Will Rogers

A democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates. - Gore Vidal

Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary. - Reinhold Niebuhr

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

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

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