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Good government is good politics. - Richard J. Daley

Politics makes strange postmasters. - Kin Hubbard

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

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

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

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

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

Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed. - Mao Zedong

Politics is a profession where the paths of glory lead but to the gravy. - Billy Boy Franklin

University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. - Henry Kissinger

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

Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing. - Bernard Baruch

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. - H L Mencken

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

When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy. - Charles de Secondat

Of all the tasks of government, the most basic is to protect its citizens from violence. - John Foster Dulles

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

What is the first part of politics? Education. The second? Education. And the third? Education. - Jules Michelet

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

I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing. - H L Mencken

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

Politics, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong. - Richard Armour

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

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

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. - John Kenneth Galbraith

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. - Plato

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

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

Canada's political parties spend a few years in opposition and then govern as if it's permanent payback time. - Bob Rae

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

One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President. - Lyndon B. Johnson

A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election. - Bill Vaughan

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

In a world of complex threats, our security and leadership depends on all elements of our power - including strong and principled diplomacy. - Barack Obama

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my country. I make up for lost time when I am at home. - Winston Churchill

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