Trump Cross

A week is a long time in politics. - Harold Wilson

Politics makes strange red-fellows. - Will Rogers

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

Don't vote; it only encourages them. - Unknown

Democracy breeds the germs of its own destruction. - V I Lenin

Most bad government results from too much government. - Thomas Jefferson

All diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means. - Zhou Enlai

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under. - H L Mencken

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

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

Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. - John Kenneth Galbraith

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. - Aristotle

No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power. - Jacob Bronowski

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power. - Aldous Huxley

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

To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy. - Bertrand Russell

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

In Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination. - Irving Layton

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

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. - George Orwell

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

The irony of the matter is that the future generations do not have a vote. In effect, we hold their proxy. - Charles J Hitch

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. - Frederic Bastiat

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

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

Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you. - Pericles (430 B.C.)

I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress. - Ronald Reagan

It's especially hard if the government is not providing services, or is even conducting ethnic cleansing against you. - Paul Harvey

The most dangerous person of the world is a member of the United States Congress just home from a three-day fact-finding trip. - Johnny Isakson

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

I am quite sure now that often in matters concerning religion and politics, a man's reasoning powers are not above the monkeys. - Mark Twain

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

Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the Government take care of him, better take a closer look at the American Indian. - Henry Ford

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

Being in politics is like being a football coach; you have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important. - Eugene McCarthy

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

Regarded simply as a politician, and compared with the other leading political figures of our time, how clean a smell he has managed to leave behind. - Mahatma Gandhi

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