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Diplomacy: Lying in state. - Oliver Herford

Politics makes strange postmasters. - Kin Hubbard

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

In politics nothing is contemptible. - Benjamin Disraeli

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

From politics, it was an easy step to silence. - Jane Austen

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts. - Henry Brooks Adams

Politics is just show business for ugly people. - Jay Leno

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

The Golden Rule has no place in a political campaign. - John J Ingalls

The art of government is the organization of idolatry. - George Bernard Shaw

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

I greet you in the name of peace, democracy, and freedom. - Nelson Mandela

War has rules, mud wrestling has rules - politics has no rules. - Ross Perot

Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest thing in the nicest way. - Isaac Goldberg

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

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 police force cannot be completely independent of the executive government. - P Chidambaram

No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session. - Mark Twain

I learned a long time ago in Hollywood that the only person I should vote for is myself. - Jack Nicholson

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

There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you. - Will Rogers

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

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

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

Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to my conscience, above all liberties. - John Milton

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

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 hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning. - Theodor Adorno

Taxpayer - someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination. - Ronald Reagan

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

I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress. - Ronald Reagan

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

I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other. - Napoleon Bonaparte

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

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