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Vote early and vote often. - Al Capone

Politics is an inexact science. - Otto von Bismarck

Politics have no relation to morals. - Niccolo Machiavelli

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

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

Everybody knows politics is a contact sport. - Barrack Obama

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

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

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

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

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

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

Commitments the voters don’t know about can't hurt you. - Ogden Nash

There is no distinctly American criminal class - except Congress. - Mark Twain

Every woman dreams of her own political career and her own place in life. - Raisa M. Gorbachev

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

University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. - Henry Kissinger

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

A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. - George Bernard Shaw

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power. - Aldous Huxley

Either the government will be given to us or we shall seize it by marching on Rome. - Benito Mussolini

Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism. - Bill Moyers

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

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

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

He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career. - George Bernard Shaw

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

The irony of the matter is that the future generations do not have a vote. In effect, we hold their proxy. - Charles J Hitch

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

Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. - Benjamin Franklin

One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are. - Cal Thomas

What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those? - Gilbert Highet

The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not. - Thomas Jefferson

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

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

In a world of complex threats, our security and leadership depends on all elements of our power - including strong and principled diplomacy. - Barack Obama

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