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All politics is local. - Thomas P O'Neil

Politics is an inexact science. - Otto von Bismarck

Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs. - Isaiah Berlin

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

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

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

Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets. - Ronald Reagan

Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party. - Herbert Hoover

Liberty: One of Imagination's most previous possessions. - Ambrose Bierce

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

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

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

It's a terrible shame that politics has become show business. - Sydney Pollack

Liberty don't work as good in practice as it does in speeches. - Will Rogers

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

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

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

I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent. - Edith Sitwell

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

I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. - Will Rogers

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

Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame. - Bertrand Russell

Diplomacy is the art of saying, "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock. - Will Rogers

The secret of political bargaining is to look more strong than what you really are. - Subhash Bose

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

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

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. - Thomas Jefferson

I think it's an absolute disaster that Australia, the government, allowed kangaroo culling. - Steve Irwin

It's our experience that political leaders don't always mean the opposite of what they say. - Abba Eban

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

He is one of those wise philanthropists who, in a time of famine, would vote for nothing but a supply of toothpicks. - Douglas Jerrold

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

The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning, but without understanding. - Louis D Brandeis

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

Every country must be absolutely free to adopt the type of economic, political and social system that it considers convenient. - Fidel Castro

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

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

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