QuotaBillsAll politics is local. - Thomas P O'Neil
There is no gambling like politics. - Benjamin Disraeli
Politics makes strange postmasters. - Kin Hubbard
Liberty, once lost, is lost forever. - John Adams
Liberty consists in doing what one desires. - John Stuart Mill
Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business. - Winston Churchill
Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you. - Ralph Nader
Democracy breeds the germs of its own destruction. - V I Lenin
The Golden Rule has no place in a political campaign. - John J Ingalls
You can't get rich in politics unless you're a crook. - Harry S Truman
Politics is a profession where the paths of glory lead but to the gravy. - Billy Boy Franklin
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. - Henry Kissinger
Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. - Aristotle
To lodge all power in one party and keep it there is to insure bad government. - Mark Twain
Democracy used to be a good thing, but now it has gotten into the wrong hands. - Jesse Helms
Liberty is the right to do what I like; license, the right to do what you like. - Bertrand Russell
Diplomacy is the art of saying, "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock. - Will Rogers
Personally, I'm against political jokes. Too often they get elected to office. - Henny Youngman
Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it. - Laurence J Peter
My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight. - John F Kennedy
He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career. - George Bernard Shaw
In Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination. - Irving Layton
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. - George Orwell
The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare. - Daniel P Moynihan
I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast. - Viktor Frankl
The man who can make others laugh secures more votes for a measure than the man who forces them to think. - Malcolm de Chazal
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer. - Will Rogers
When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power. - Maggie Gallagher
Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. - Frederic Bastiat
Love, like democracy, can survive almost any attack - except neglect, indifference and maybe an arrow in the back. - Unknown
Taxpayer - someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination. - Ronald Reagan
He is one of those wise philanthropists who, in a time of famine, would vote for nothing but a supply of toothpicks. - Douglas Jerrold
One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are. - Cal Thomas
The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not. - Thomas Jefferson
Very few of these panic-mongers have any personal knowledge of the countries that are already under blackshirt government. - Lord Rothermere
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
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
The nine most terrifying words in the English language are,
"I'm from the government and I'm here to help." - Ronald Reagan
The workers' and peasants' government proposes to all warring peoples... negotiations leading to a just, democratic peace. - Lenin
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries. - Winston Churchill