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Politics is an inexact science. - Otto von Bismarck

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

Voters want a fraud they can believe in. - Will Durst

Feudalism: It's your Count that votes - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Every country has the government it deserves. - Joseph de Maistre

A government of law is a government of lawyers. - Saying

Liberty is never being too sure you're right. - Learned Hand

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

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

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

There can be no wise politics without thought beforehand. - Annie Besant

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

We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy. - Martin L. Gross

You can't get rich in politics unless you're a crook. - Harry S Truman

An honest man in politics shines more than he would elsewhere. - Mark Twain

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

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

Democracy! Bah! When I hear that word I reach for my feather Boa. - Allen Ginsberg

For every action, there is an equal and opposite government program. - Bob Wells

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

Ultimatum: In diplomacy, a last demand before resorting to concessions - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. - John Kenneth Galbraith

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. - Aristotle

American Politics: A form of socialism for the rich, including the politicians. - Gregory Nunn

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

Everyone wants to eat at the government's table, but nobody wants to do the dishes. - Werner Finck

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it. - Mark Twain

To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy. - Bertrand Russell

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

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

Democracy is very different in U.S. and A. from Kazakhstan. In America, woman can vote, but horse cannot! - Borat Sagdiyev

Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless. - Milton Friedman

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

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

I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters, okay? It's, like, incredible. - Donald Trump

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

In politics, as in womanizing, failure is decisive. It sheds its retrospective gloom on earlier endeavor which at the time seemed full of promise. - Malcolm Muggeridge