Cemetery Protest

All politics is local. - Thomas P O'Neil

The bad guys always get a vote. - Navy saying

A week is a long time in politics. - Harold Wilson

Take it from me - elections matter. - Al Gore

There is no gambling like politics. - Benjamin Disraeli

Politics is the art of the possible. - Otto von Bismarck

Voters want a fraud they can believe in. - Will Durst

Information is the currency of democracy. - Unknown

A penny saved is a Congressional oversight. - Hal Luyah

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

The only certain freedom's in departure. - Robert Frost

Man is not free unless government is limited. - Ronald Reagan

Intelligence has nothing to do with politics. - Londo Molari

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

We are all of us the worse for too much liberty. - Terence

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit. - Khalil Gibran

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun. - R Buckminster Fuller

Self-government won't work without self-discipline. - Paul Harvey

Nothing is more important than independence and freedom. - Ho Chi Minh

I greet you in the name of peace, democracy, and freedom. - Nelson Mandela

It's so much easier to throw rocks than it is to govern. - Karen Bass

I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

I don't go around signin' no political documentaries. - Archie Bunker

You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think. - Milton Berle

The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world. - Reinhold Niebuhr

The most important political office is that of the private citizen. - Louis D. Brandeis

Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for. - Will Rogers

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

You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat. - Jackie Kennedy

Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently. - Rosa Luxemburg

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

Liberty is the right to do what I like; license, the right to do what you like. - Bertrand Russell

Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame. - Bertrand Russell

A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. - George Bernard Shaw

Children need the freedom and time to play. Play is not a luxury. Play is a necessity. - Kay R. Jamison

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. - P.J. O'Rourke

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity. - Karl Marx

We could certainly slow the aging process down if it had to work its way through Congress. - Will Rogers

Govern thy life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one, and read the other. - Thomas Fuller

I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government. - Woody Allen

What right does Congress have to go around making laws just because they deem it necessary? - Marion Barry

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

So, if we lie to the government, it's a felony.
But if they lie to us, it's politics. - Bill Murray

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

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

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

Politics: Poli, a Latin word meaning "many"; and tics, meaning "bloodsucking creatures." - Robin Williams

There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy. - Fidel Castro

Democracy means that anyone can grow up to be president, and anyone who doesn't grow up can be vice president. - Johnny Carson

Taxpayer - someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination. - Ronald Reagan

Frankly, I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry. - Joseph Heller

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

It's especially hard if the government is not providing services, or is even conducting ethnic cleansing against you. - Paul Harvey

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

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

A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election. - Bill Vaughan

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

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility. - Sigmund Freud

There is nothing more majestic than the determined courage of individuals willing to suffer and sacrifice for their freedom and dignity. - Martin Luther King Jr

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. - Aristotle

Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired. - Robert F. Kennedy

In politics, as in womanizing, failure is decisive. It sheds its retrospective gloom on earlier endeavor which at the time seemed full of promise. - Malcolm Muggeridge

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