Without Government

There is no gambling like politics. - Benjamin Disraeli

Man is by nature a political animal. - Aristotle

The gun is not out of Irish politics. - Ian Paisley

Information is the currency of democracy. - Unknown

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

I never saw anything funnier than Texas politics. - Molly Ivins

Democracy breeds the germs of its own destruction. - V I Lenin

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

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory. - John Kenneth Galbraith

The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia. - Otto von Bismarck

The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression. - W.E.B. Du Bois

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

We have the best government in the world... that money can buy. - Mark Twain

We would all like to vote for the best man but he is never a candidate. - Kin Hubbard

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

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

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

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people, by the people, for the people. - Oscar Wilde

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

Whenever a fellow tells me he's bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me. - Harry S Truman

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. - George Bernard Shaw

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

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. - Robert Frost

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. - George Orwell

A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have. - Thomas Jefferson

When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves. - George Pataki

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

One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government. - Donald Trump

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.)

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

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

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

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book. - Ronald Reagan

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

We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both. - Louis D. Branders

Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. - Ronald Reagan

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

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

Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments. - Isaac Asimov