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Vote early and vote often. - Al Capone

Diplomacy: Lying in state. - Oliver Herford

Good government is good politics. - Richard J. Daley

Television is democracy at its ugliest. - Paddy Chayefsky

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

An educated people can be easily governed. - Frederick II

Every country has the government it deserves. - Joseph de Maistre

All government, of course, is against liberty. - H L Mencken

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

The Golden Rule has no place in a political campaign. - John J Ingalls

Bulldozing: Going to sleep during a political speech. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Political War: One in which everyone shoots from the lip - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

There can be no wise politics without thought beforehand. - Annie Besant

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

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

War has rules, mud wrestling has rules - politics has no rules. - Ross Perot

I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together. - Gerald R. Ford

World War II was the last government program that really worked. - George Will

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

Democracy! Bah! When I hear that word I reach for my feather Boa. - Allen Ginsberg

Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy. - Sir Peter Ustinov

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

Republicans will do anything for the poor except get off their backs. - American Proverb

Passion and prejudice govern the world, only under the name of reason. - John Wesley

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office. - Thomas Jefferson

Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed. - Mao Zedong

University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. - Henry Kissinger

Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will. - Mikhail Bakunin

Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing. - Bernard Baruch

No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent. - Abraham Lincoln

To lodge all power in one party and keep it there is to insure bad government. - Mark Twain

The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop. - P.J. O'Rourke

Democracy used to be a good thing, but now it has gotten into the wrong hands. - Jesse Helms

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

In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man; if you want anything done, ask a woman. - Margaret Thatcher

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

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

I must study politics and war that my sons may have the liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. - John Adams

Why pay money to have your family tree traced; go into politics and your opponents will do it for you. - Unknown

Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave. - Henry Brougham

I can remember when Democrats believed that it was the duty of America to fight for freedom over tyranny. - Zell Miller

A diplomat is someone who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you will look forward to the trip. - Caskie Stinnett

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

Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to my conscience, above all liberties. - John Milton

I don't look for much to come out of government ownership as long as we have Democrats and Republicans. - Kin Hubbard

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

The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up. - Jay Leno

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

I was a Democrat for a period of time early on. And then I was also an independent. And then I became a Republican. - Donald Trump

Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless. - Milton Friedman

There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism. - Alexander Hamilton

Canada's political parties spend a few years in opposition and then govern as if it's permanent payback time. - Bob Rae

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

Freedom has many difficulties and democracy is not perfect. But we have never had to put a wall up to keep our people in. - John F Kennedy

A democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates. - Gore Vidal

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

We're at a point in history where everyone needs to pay attention to politics. Too much is at stake for us to be apathetic. - Kevin Costner

An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry. - George Eliot

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other. - Voltaire

A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life. - John Stuart Mill

In a world of complex threats, our security and leadership depends on all elements of our power - including strong and principled diplomacy. - Barack Obama

If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep. - Will Rogers

The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed. - Publilius Syrus

Our ancestors believed in magic, prayers, trickery, browbeating and bullying. I think it would be fair to sum that up as 'Irish politics'. - Flann O'Brien