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Man is by nature a political animal. - Aristotle

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

Talk is cheap... except when Congress does it. - Unknown

All government, of course, is against liberty. - H L Mencken

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

Politics is the art of controlling your environment. - Hunter S. Thompson

The problem with political jokes is they get elected. - Henry Cate, VII

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

Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote. - George Jean Nathan

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

A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves. - Bertrand de Jouvenel

Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. - Charles de Gaulle

World War II was the last government program that really worked. - George Will

You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think. - Milton Berle

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

Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide issues. - George Will

The most important political office is that of the private citizen. - Louis D. Brandeis

Government of the people, by the people, and for the pursuit of happiness. - Archie Bunker

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

To be safe at the expense of the liberty of other people is a difficult equation. - Madeleine Albright

Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated. - Will Rogers

Personally, I'm against political jokes. Too often they get elected to office. - Henny Youngman

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

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. - Winston Churchill

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

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

Democracy means that anyone can grow up to be president, and anyone who doesn't grow up can be vice president. - Johnny Carson

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

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote. - Benjamin Franklin

It's especially hard if the government is not providing services, or is even conducting ethnic cleansing against you. - Paul Harvey

It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen. - George MacDonald

The most dangerous person of the world is a member of the United States Congress just home from a three-day fact-finding trip. - Johnny Isakson

In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress. - John 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

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other. - Voltaire

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. - Aristotle