Biden in the Oval Office

All politics is applesauce. - Will Rogers

Erection: When Japanese go to vote. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Politics have no relation to morals. - Niccolo Machiavelli

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

The gun is not out of Irish politics. - Ian Paisley

Television is democracy at its ugliest. - Paddy Chayefsky

One cannot govern with "buts." - Charles de Gaulle

You campaign in poetry; you govern in prose. - Mario Cuomo

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

From politics, it was an easy step to silence. - Jane Austen

The human race is governed by its imagination. - Napoleon Bonaparte

Politics is just show business for ugly people. - Jay Leno

Liberty is never being too sure you're right. - Learned Hand

America is a land where men govern, but women rule. - John M Brown

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

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

The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression. - W.E.B. Du Bois

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

Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least. - Robert Byrne

Every woman dreams of her own political career and her own place in life. - Raisa M. Gorbachev

I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. - Will Rogers

Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote. - William E. Simon

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

In politics, madame, you need two things: friends, but above all an enemy. - Brian Mulroney

The trouble with free elections is, you never know who is going to get in. - Leonid Brezhnev

Government can't give us anything without depriving us of something else. - Henry Hazlitt

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

The short memories of American voters is what keeps our politicians in office. - Will Rogers

The only thing we learn from new elections is we learned nothing from the old. - American Proverb

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. - H L Mencken

A good politician, under democracy, is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar. - H L Mencken

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

The trouble with free elections is that you never know how they are going to turn out. - Vyacheslav Molotov

I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death. - Patrick Henry

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. - Winston Churchill

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

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

That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves. - Thomas Jefferson

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it. - Mark Twain

Passover affirms the great truth that liberty is the inalienable right of every human being. - Morris Joseph

Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner. - James Bovard

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

In a democracy, the one thing that cannot be done is to destroy its trust, its hope, its idealism. - Teresa Heinz

The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare. - Daniel P Moynihan

A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have. - Thomas Jefferson

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

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

Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds. - John P Barlow

Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism. - Claude McKay

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

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.)

He is one of those wise philanthropists who, in a time of famine, would vote for nothing but a supply of toothpicks. - Douglas Jerrold

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

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

Very few of these panic-mongers have any personal knowledge of the countries that are already under blackshirt government. - Lord Rothermere

One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President. - Lyndon B. Johnson

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

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book. - Ronald Reagan

Every country must be absolutely free to adopt the type of economic, political and social system that it considers convenient. - Fidel Castro

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

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