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A penny saved is a Congressional oversight. - Hal Luyah

To receive a benefit is to sell your liberty. - Laberius

We are all of us the worse for too much liberty. - Terence

I love a dog. He does nothing for political reasons. - Will Rogers

If men were angels, no government would be necessary. - James Madison

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory. - John Kenneth Galbraith

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

You can't get rich in politics unless you're a crook. - Harry S Truman

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

The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government. - Edward Abbey

Politics is the chloroform of the Irish people, or, rather the hashish. - Oliver St. John Gogarty

In a democracy the majority has every right to act as stupid as the minority. - Frank Dane

The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy. - Theodore White

A filmmaker we almost lost to politics... my friend and colleague, Warren Beatty. - Jack Nicholson

Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated. - Will Rogers

Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it. - Laurence J Peter

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

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

We go by the major vote, and if the majority are insane, the sane must go to the hospital. - Horace Mann

I am on your Walk of Fame in Toronto. My sense of humour is Canadian. But I can't vote. - Donald Sutherland

There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you. - Will Rogers

I have a wonderful make-up crew. They're the same people restoring the Statue of Liberty. - Bob Hope

The difference between death and taxes is death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets. - Will Rogers

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. - H L Mencken

Such is the irresistible nature of truth that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing. - Thomas Paine

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 look for much to come out of government ownership as long as we have Democrats and Republicans. - Kin Hubbard

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

The largest party in America is neither the Democrats nor the Republicans. It's the party of non-voters. - Robert Reich

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

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand. - Milton Friedman

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

In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate. - Charles de Gaulle

One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are. - Cal Thomas

We study the glory of God, and the honour and liberty of parliament, for which we fight, without seeking our own interests. - Oliver Cromwell

The nine most terrifying words in the English language are,
"I'm from the government and I'm here to help." - Ronald Reagan

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

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