Awkward

Vote early and vote often. - Al Capone

Politics is an inexact science. - Otto von Bismarck

Man is by nature a political animal. - Aristotle

Television is democracy at its ugliest. - Paddy Chayefsky

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

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

Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you. - Ralph Nader

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

Government cannot and must not replace private initiative. - Kim Campbell

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. - George Bernard Shaw

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

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

To deceive a diplomat speak the truth, he has no experience with it. - Greek Proverb

To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy. - Will Durant

No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power. - Jacob Bronowski

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

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

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

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

I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death. - Patrick Henry

My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight. - John F Kennedy

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

So, if we lie to the government, it's a felony.
But if they lie to us, it's politics. - Bill Murray

Why pay money to have your family tree traced; go into politics and your opponents will do it for you. - Unknown

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

Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism. - Claude McKay

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

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

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

Very few of these panic-mongers have any personal knowledge of the countries that are already under blackshirt government. - Lord Rothermere

A democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates. - Gore Vidal

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

The workers' and peasants' government proposes to all warring peoples... negotiations leading to a just, democratic peace. - Lenin

I am quite sure now that often in matters concerning religion and politics, a man's reasoning powers are not above the monkeys. - Mark Twain

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

Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people. - Joe Biden

Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other. - Oscar Ameringer

Our ancestors believed in magic, prayers, trickery, browbeating and bullying. I think it would be fair to sum that up as 'Irish politics'. - Flann O'Brien