QuotaBillsThe bad guys always get a vote. - Navy saying
A week is a long time in politics. - Harold Wilson
There is no gambling like politics. - Benjamin Disraeli
Voters want a fraud they can believe in. - Will Durst
Everybody knows politics is a contact sport. - Barrack Obama
We are all of us the worse for too much liberty. - Terence
Mexico's making a fortune off the United States. - Donald Trump
Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory. - John Kenneth Galbraith
Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance. - Robert Frost
Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party. - Herbert Hoover
In politics, a lie unanswered becomes truth within 24 hours. - Willie Brown
Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide issues. - George Will
I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent. - Edith Sitwell
Every woman dreams of her own political career and her own place in life. - Raisa M. Gorbachev
I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. - Will Rogers
Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will. - Mikhail Bakunin
No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power. - Jacob Bronowski
Mexico: where life is cheap, death is rich, and the buzzards are never unhappy. - Edward Abbey
American Politics: A form of socialism for the rich, including the politicians. - Gregory Nunn
Democracy is also a form of religion; it is the worship of jackals by jackasses. - H L Mencken
A good politician, under democracy, is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar. - H L Mencken
Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business. - Tom Robbins
No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session. - Mark Twain
Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. - P.J. O'Rourke
I think it's an absolute disaster that Australia, the government, allowed kangaroo culling. - Steve Irwin
I must study politics and war that my sons may have the liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. - John Adams
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. - H L Mencken
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. - John Kenneth Galbraith
The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up. - Jay Leno
There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism. - Alexander Hamilton
Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. - Benjamin Franklin
If the government was as afraid of disturbing the consumer as it is of disturbing business, this would be some democracy. - Kin Hubbard
Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary. - Reinhold Niebuhr
I'm not interested in cutting the feet off my characters or stretching them to make them fit my certain political view. - Margaret Atwood
Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. - Ambrose Bierce
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
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
When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale. - John W. Gardner
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