Presidential Inauguration of Joe Biden on Wednesday, January 20, 2021
QuotaBillsAll 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