QuotaBillsThe bad guys always get a vote. - Navy saying
Good government is good politics. - Richard J. Daley
Man is by nature a political animal. - Aristotle
Politics have no relation to morals. - Niccolo Machiavelli
Liberty, once lost, is lost forever. - John Adams
One cannot govern with "buts." - Charles de Gaulle
In politics an absurdity is not a handicap. - Napoleon Bonaparte
Intelligence has nothing to do with politics. - Londo Molari
Practical politics consists in ignoring facts. - Henry Brooks Adams
I never saw anything funnier than Texas politics. - Molly Ivins
Democracy breeds the germs of its own destruction. - V I Lenin
Those who trade liberty for security have neither. - John Adams
Life without liberty is like a body without spirit. - Khalil Gibran
I love a dog. He does nothing for political reasons. - Will Rogers
If men were angels, no government would be necessary. - James Madison
There can be no wise politics without thought beforehand. - Annie Besant
Sudafed: Brought litigation against a government official - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party. - Herbert Hoover
You can't get rich in politics unless you're a crook. - Harry S Truman
A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top. - James Reston
An honest man in politics shines more than he would elsewhere. - Mark Twain
How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese? - Charles de Gaulle
Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. - Charles de Gaulle
War has rules, mud wrestling has rules - politics has no rules. - Ross Perot
Democracy! Bah! When I hear that word I reach for my feather Boa. - Allen Ginsberg
Republicans will do anything for the poor except get off their backs. - American Proverb
Ultimatum: In diplomacy, a last demand before resorting to concessions - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
Every woman dreams of her own political career and her own place in life. - Raisa M. Gorbachev
Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote. - William E. Simon
Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will. - Mikhail Bakunin
A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue. - Daniel Webster
Democracy is also a form of religion; it is the worship of jackals by jackasses. - H L Mencken
A filmmaker we almost lost to politics... my friend and colleague, Warren Beatty. - Jack Nicholson
Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it. - Laurence J Peter
The election is not very far off when a candidate can recognize you across the street. - Kin Hubbard
Whenever a fellow tells me he's bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me. - Harry S Truman
There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you. - Will Rogers
To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy. - Bertrand Russell
Officialese: A government language where you can understand the words, but not the sentences - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it. - Tom Robbins
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
My love life is terrible. The last time I was inside a woman was when I visited the Statue of Liberty. - Woody Allen
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
Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to my conscience, above all liberties. - John Milton
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
The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up. - Jay Leno
Democracy means that anyone can grow up to be president, and anyone who doesn't grow up can be vice president. - Johnny Carson
Politics is the only business where doing nothing other than making the other guy look bad is an acceptable outcome. - Mark Warner
Frankly, I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry. - Joseph Heller
Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. - Benjamin Franklin
I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other. - Napoleon Bonaparte
The Republicans have all of the cards. And this is the time to get rid of Obamacare. This is the time to make the great deal. - Donald Trump
The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men. - Plato
In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican. - H L Mencken
Every country must be absolutely free to adopt the type of economic, political and social system that it considers convenient. - Fidel Castro
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
We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both. - Louis D. Branders
Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. - Ronald Reagan
Be known for pleasing others, espcecially if you govern them... Ruling others has one advantage: you can do more good than anyone else. - Baltasar Gracian
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
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
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