Presidential Election

Jazz is democracy in music. - Wynton Marsalis

In politics nothing is contemptible. - Benjamin Disraeli

Television is democracy at its ugliest. - Paddy Chayefsky

A penny saved is a Congressional oversight. - Hal Luyah

Everybody knows politics is a contact sport. - Barrack Obama

Man is not free unless government is limited. - Ronald Reagan

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

Self-government won't work without self-discipline. - Paul Harvey

The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression. - W.E.B. Du Bois

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

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

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

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

Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

We would all like to vote for the best man but he is never a candidate. - Kin Hubbard

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

Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote. - William E. Simon

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

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

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

Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it. - Tom Robbins

Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner. - James Bovard

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

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

Animals are like little children a bit. They're simple. They don't have politics driving them. - Annabelle Sabloff

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

When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves. - George Pataki

I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses. - Victor Hugo

One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government. - Donald Trump

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time. - E.B. White

There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy. - Fidel Castro

They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men. - Clare Boothe Luce

The only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in keeping their money in their own pockets. - Lysander Spooner

Harold MacMillan is a very intelligent man, who, as so often happens in politics, achieved supreme power too late. - Malcolm Muggeridge

I have certain rules I live by. My first rule: I don't believe anything the government tells me. Nothing. Zero. - George Carlin

In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress. - John Adams

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

Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don't vote. - Paul Harvey

Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments. - Isaac Asimov